Convincing Rebel Fighters to Disarm UN Information Operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, "Convincing Rebel Fighters to Disarm: UN Information Operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo"
English | ISBN: 3110469294 | 2016 | 247 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
One of the key mission objectives of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) was to disarm and repatriate foreign combatants in the eastern region of the country. To achieve this, MONUC adopted a „push and pull" strategy.

This involved applying military pressure while at the same time offering opportunities for voluntary disarmament and repatriation for armed combatants of the elusive but deadly Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) - a predominantly Rwandan Hutu armed group in eastern DRC. As part of its "pull" strategy, MONUC embarked on one of the most sophisticated Information Operations (IO) campaigns in UN history with the core objective of convincing thousands of individual combatants and commanders of the FDLR to voluntarily disarm and join the UN's Demobilization, Disarmament, Repatriation, Resettlement and Reintegration programme (DDRRR).
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