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Reconciliation and reintegrationabuses (sexual and others), and who are isolated from familiesand/or communities due to the conflict.• Ensure participation of the conflict victims in political processesby facilitating the establishment of working groups on politicalissues relevant to them.• Articulate a strong political agenda that place conflict victimsas central partners in peace and development in post-conflictsettings and mobilise them in political activism and contributionto societal process.• Identify specific training needs for the conflict victims that willdevelop confidence, ensure short and medium-term relief toeconomic hardship and assure stable livelihoods.• Support programme activities that cater to disabled, woundedand the other people with special needs.• Facilitate especial package of basic support schemes forreconciliation and social reintegration, especially tracingunaccompanied children and reunifying them with their familiesor relatives, arranging them for food and proper shelter,education, healthcare and employment.• Help the conflict victims emotionally, address their livelihoodneeds and poverty, improve social provisions such as access toschool, healthcare, and employment and facilitate them to bethe active citizens.• R&R of the conflict victims of armed conflict should go hand-inhandwith larger strategies of post-conflict social developmentand political transformation.• In the political reintegration process, the conflict victims shouldbe made participate in social organisations and the state's basicpolitical structures.ReferenceAditya A, Upreti BR, Adhikari PK. 2006. Countries in Conflict and Processing ofPeace: Lessons for Nepal. Kathmandu: Friends for Peace.African Rights. 2000. Confessing to Genocide: Responses to Rwanda’s GenocideLaw. Kigali: African Rights Working for Justice.282