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Militarized youths in western Côte d’Ivoire: local processes of mobilization,
demobilization, and related humanitarian interventions (2002-2007)
Chelpi, M.L.B.
Publication date
2011
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Chelpi, M. L. B. (2011). Militarized youths in western Côte d’Ivoire: local processes of
mobilization, demobilization, and related humanitarian interventions (2002-2007). African
Studies Centre.
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Appendix 2
Checklists of individual interview guidelines
1Main socio-demographic characteristic
age, sex, ethnic group, place of birth, social group membership, involved in a relation-ship or not, ethnic group of spouse, with/without children under custody, age of child-ren, educational status of childchild-ren, raised by whom and at what period, parents/guardi-ans occupations (current or former), parents alive/deceased, parents living together/apart during childhood, general information on siblings, strength of ties with the near family, involved/not involved in a past family conflict
Mobility
list of all localities where the respondents have lived since childhood detailing the peri-ods, the occupation, the reason of having moved there and the extent of financial (in)-dependence, last place of residence at the moment of recruitment and composition of household, place of residence affected/not affected by open fighting at the peak of conflict, displaced/not displaced due to war
Educational trajectories
list of all schools (public and private) where the respondents have studied since child-hood detailing the localities, the periods, the people taking care of food/accommoda-tion/school and clothing expenses, reasons for dropping out, for those who had dropped at an early age or who had never gone to school, extent of functional literacy and nume-racy
Professional trajectories
age of respondent when he/she started working (including unpaid help to parents), list of all paid/unpaid economic activities since childhood by locality and period, frequency and amount of the money earned (including time in informal apprenticeship), details of possible dependents, goals of possible savings
Recruitment
place and date of recruitment into the first armed group, age when recruited, name of first group integrated, detailed circumstances of recruitment, rationales for joining, any proof of enlistment, relatives/friends/acquaintances already into the armed group prior enlistment, violent death of someone close due to war
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Militarized life
list of all fronts and military settings where the respondents went by period and locality since recruitment day, accommodation and eating habits and locations, general informa-tion on earnings during that period including sporadic incentives given by war chiefs and products of the loot, description of the various tasks executed while in the armed group, extent of involvement in extra-military paid activity, extent of social connection with close family during the time in the armed group
Return to civil life
demobilized or still active2 current place of residence and composition of the household,
current activity, eating habits, personal and professional project once demobilized, des-cription of training followed within the reinsertion project, familiar/not familiar with the activity, willingness to continue the activity or to do something else, nature of financial and in-kind support received, ideal location to run the project, in group/in family/alone, general knowledge of DDR benefits
2 Note that nearly all respondents were involved in a reinsertion project at the time of doing fieldwork
but only about half were demobilized (the pro-government militias). There had not yet been any de-mobilization of rebel forces.
