Despite billions spent on defence reform globally, policymakers lack the tools and methodology to accurately assess “the state of the defense sector in a given country, to provide them with a systematic way of determining a country’s capabilities to achieve various security goals [...] or to monitor the success of defense sector programs over time.” 
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December | 2010
RAND report introduces Defense Sector Assessment Rating Tool (DSART)
By: Geoff Burt | Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010RESDAL releases 2010 Comparative Atlas of Defence in Latin America and the Caribbean
By: Geoff Burt | Friday, December 17th, 2010The Security and Defense Network of Latin America (RESDAL) has released the fourth edition of its Comparative Atlas of Defence. The publication, a result of two years of research which features for the first time description and analysis of defence and security realities in the Caribbean region, is now called the Comparative Atlas of Defence
Want local ownership? Then fund locals, not foreigners
By: Edward Rees | Tuesday, December 14th, 2010Timorese security sector NGO Fundasaun Mahein is the only civil society organization of its sort in Timor-Leste. Founded by Nelson Belo, a survivor of the Santa Cruz Massacre and the co-founder of the Judicial System Monitoring Programme, the organization is beginning to make headway in carving out a truly local approach to SSR. Fundasaun Mahein means Guardian Foundation
Camp Victory, Afghanistan—an inside look at the training of the Afghan National Army
By: Geoff Burt | Tuesday, December 7th, 2010Last week the Centre for International Governance Innovation sponsored a screening of Camp Victory, Afghanistan by Carol Dysinger. The film, based on over 300 hours of footage shot between 2005 and 2008, is a remarkable look at the process of training the Afghan National Army. As Dysinger said to the audience after the screening, she
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