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Members of the public might often react negatively to community notifications about people released from prison, especially if the individual has a violence past. (Shutterstock)

June 10, 2024

Public notifications make it challenging for prisoners to reintegrate after release

Sandy Jung, MacEwan University

Community notifications are intended to be helpful, however, they can also make reintegrating back into the community challenging for released individuals.

May 30, 2024

Burnt out? This is how your employer can help you return to work for the better

Lode Godderis, KU Leuven

In some OECD countries, workers suffering from depression and burn-out make up than two-thirds of those absent for mental-health reasons. Successful reintegration strategies can help them come back.

A sign outside the Fraser Regional Correctional Centre in Maple Ridge, B.C. The B.C. government has introduced legislation that would ban people convicted of serious crimes from changing their names. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

May 26, 2024

Banning offenders from changing their names doesn’t make us safer

Linda Mussell, University of Canterbury; Jessica Evans, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Laura Johnstone, University of Canterbury

British Columbia’s proposed ban on name changes could impact people’s Charter rights and undermine the rehabilitation and reintegration of those convicted of crimes.

Individuals, organisations and governments have pulled together to support those displaced by the conflict in Benue State, Nigeria. Kola Sulaimon/AFP

October 12, 2023

Over 2 million Nigerians are displaced by farmer-herder conflict in Benue State: there are 4 support systems they turn to

Victor Onyilor Achem, University of Ibadan

Individuals, the government, faith-based groups and NGOs all offer support to those who have fled the herder-farmer conflict.

The wreckage of a car hit by an attack led by Boko Haram members. AFP via Getty Images

January 19, 2022

Nigeria’s Boko Haram reintegration process: weaknesses and how they can be fixed

Tarela Juliet Ike, Teesside University

For a successful reintegration of former Boko Haram combatants into society, public perceptions in Nigeria need to change.

A FARC rebel holds her four-month-old daughter Manuela outside her tent at a rebel camp in a demobilization zone in La Carmelita, Colombia, in 2017. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

November 18, 2021

Anniversary of peace deals in Nepal and Colombia: Views on female ex-soldiers need to be challenged

Luna K.C., McGill University and Priscyll Anctil Avoine, Lund University

Reintegration is a gendered phenomenon — women, men and LGBTQ+ people experience it differently.

Social reintegration and personal reconciliation should be paramount in post-conflict Cote d'Ivoire Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images

May 6, 2021

Peacebuilding in Côte d’Ivoire: why it’s hard to reintegrate combatants and achieve justice

Jessica Moody, King's College London

Based on the Cote d'Ivoire experience, the United Nations must reconsider its emphasis on coordinating reintegration and transitional justice irrespective of the post-war context.

Former child soldiers need more than mainstream education and vocational training. Robert Adrian Hillman/Shutterstock

April 28, 2019

The old ways of reintegrating young veterans need to be abandoned

Komlan Agbedahin, University of the Free State

The skills that former child soldiers gain in wartime can be useful as they reintegrate into society.

A soldier stands guard after a clash with demobilised ex-rebel fighters at the entrance of Bouaké,Côte d'Ivoire, 23 May 2017. REUTERS/Abdul Fatai

June 21, 2017

Why ex-combatants pose a threat to Côte d’Ivoire’s stability

Tarila Marclint Ebiede, KU Leuven

Côte d'Ivoire’s government needs to provide different incentives and opportunities to former combatants.

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