List of abbreviations

ACABQ Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (Uni ted Nations)

ACRI African Crisis Response Initiative

AFRC Armed Forces Revolutionary Council

AFSL Armed Forces of Sierra Leone

AU African Union

CDF Civil Defence Force

CIAT Comité International d’Accompagnement de la Transition

CTPC Comité Technique de Planification et Coordination

DDR Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration

DDRP Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Programme

DDRRR ‑Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Reintegration, and Resettlement

DRC Democratic Republic of the Congo

ECOMOG ECOWAS Monitoring Group

ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States

FAPC Forces Armées du Peuple Congolais

FDLR Force Démocratique de Liberation du Rwanda

FNI Front des Nationalistes Integrationnistes

FPDC Forces Populaires pour la Démocratie du Congo

GNU Government of National Unity

GoSL Government of Sierra Leone

IDP Internally Displaced Person

IEMF Interim Emergency Multinational Force

IMTF Integra ted Mission Task Force

JMC Joint Military Commission

MDRP Multi-Country Demobilization and Reintegration Programme

MDTF Multi-donor Trust Fund

MILOBS UN Military Observers

MONUC Uni ted Nations Mission in Congo

MRR Mécanisme de Réponse Rapide

NCDDR National Committee for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration
NCRRR National Commission for Reconstruction, Resettlement and Rehabilitation

NGO Non-governmental Organization

OAU Organization of African Unity

OCHA UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

ONUC UN Operation in the Congo

PSO Peace Support Operation

PUSIC Parti pour L’Unité et la Sauvegarde de l’intégrité du Congo

RCD-Goma Rassemblement Congolais de la Démocracie-Goma

RCD-K-ML Rassemblement Congolais de la Démocracie-Kivu- Mouvement de la Libération

RUF Revolutionary Uni ted Front

SADC Southern African Development Community

SLA Sierra Leone Army

SLPP Sierra Leone People’s Party

SRSG Special Representative of the Secretary-General

UN Uni ted Nations

UNAMIR Uni ted Nations Mission in Rwanda

UNAMSIL Uni ted Nations Mission in Sierra Leone

UNAVEM Uni ted Nations Verification and Monitoring Mission in Angola

UNDP Uni ted Nations Development Programme

UNDPKO Uni ted Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations

UPC Union des Patriotes Congolais