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This report considers the extent to which disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and related concepts are accounted for in peace processes and peace agreements. In reviewing negotiation experiences, it finds that "disarmament" and "demobilization" are often relegated to the end of talks and/or left ambiguous in peace agreements themselves. Mediators or parties to a conflict thus seldom regard disarmament and demobilization as preconditions for negotiations. They are nevertheless central to wider questions of security sector transformation and transitional justice in the aftermath of war.