Approach to Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) in Nicaragua after 28 years of the signing of the Esquipulas II agreements

Abstract

This paper aims to give a retrospective to the process of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of former Nicaraguans combatants into civilian life, after the armed conflict developed between the members of the Nicaraguan Resistance and the Sandinista Popular Army in the eighties. It will provide an overview on those elements considered as failed and as causes of the subsequent processes of rearmament, but also, visualize those elements that have allowed that Nicaragua still live in a state of relative peace. Also, the article tries to give some information about what has happened to the ex Nicaraguans combatants and which is the situation of the country concerning to the construction or not of a historical memory to ensure the non-repetition of a military conflict among the Nicaraguans.