Executive Summary
This report is based on ten weeks of field research in Burundi, between April and June 2010. This research was one of the activities of the Peace Security and Development Network (PSDN) working group on community security and community-based Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR). The aim of this working group is to contribute to our understanding of how to connect community security and DDR programmes in a context specific way. The research in Burundi builds further on insights from an earlier report of the working group "Security Promotion in Fragile States: Can Local Meet National?" (Willems et. al., 2009), and a case study of eastern DRC (Rouw and Willems, 2010). The current report is based on a variety of research approaches, such as focus group discussions, semi-structured interviews, key informant interviews, and participatory observation.