Buying Time for Peace - Trailer

Millions of people have died in conflict in the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa in the last decade. For current peace initiatives to succeed many armed groups need to be disbanded and their members helped to rejoin society...

"Buying Time for Peace" is a 35 minute documentary film about the work of the Multi-Country Demobilization and Reintegration Program, MDRP, as it seeks to demobilize and reintegrate ex-combatants in the greater Great Lakes Region of Central Africa.
Go to www.mdrp.org for more info.

Filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda, "Buying Time for Peace" will take you on a journey into the heart of the great lakes region to show you the unique role of an international partnership that is trying to break the conflict cycle and create the conditions for peace in central Africa.

Through the film you will meet and hear from adult ex-combatants and children formerly associated with armed forces as they try to reclaim their lives after conflict. They are participating in the largest program of its kind in the world: the Multi-Country Demobilization and Reintegration Program (MDRP), a multi-agency effort that supports the demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants in Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, The Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.

You will also meet MDRP specialists living and working in the region, such as Dinga, a former Colonel from Chad now in Burundi, Gromo in Rwanda, who has spent most of his life working on humanitarian issues in Africa and who witnessed the Rwandan genocide in 1994 first hand, and Harald, who spends much of his time in the more unstable parts of eastern Congo...

The MDRP is a multi-agency effort that supports the demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants in the greater Great Lakes region of Central Africa. Financed by the World Bank and 12 donors - Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the European Commission, the MDRP is feeding an estimated US$500 million into national demobilization and reintegration programs within this conflict ridden region.

Go to www.mdrp.org for more info. Cloudburst Media

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