The RAND Corporation recently published a monograph on United States security assistance efforts since the end of the Cold War. The monograph questions how the U.S. Department of Defense can increase its effectiveness in building partner capacity, and what approaches are effective under what circumstances. The RAND study compares data on 29 cases of U.S. 
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March | 2013
New RAND Study on Capacity Building Across Contexts: A Brief Review
By: Nick Armstrong | Wednesday, March 27th, 2013News Roundup: 18 March - 24 March
By: Sean Jellow | Monday, March 25th, 2013Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the SSR Resource Centre posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects and updates on SSR related events over the past week. Be sure to come back every Monday to see what has been happening in the field in this SSR Weekly roundup! -
Policing in South Africa: A State of Crisis
By: Charlotte Watson | Thursday, March 21st, 2013Policing in South Africa is once again in the spotlight after a series of incidents which are seen to highlight police brutality and corruption. In recent months the news in South Africa has been dominated by the activities of the South African police service (SAPS), and some have gone as far as to say that
Bottom Up DDR: Sierra Leone’s Okada Riders
By: Michael Lawrence | Tuesday, March 19th, 2013In 2001-2, the United Nations supervised a disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) program in Sierra Leone that processed 72,000 individuals, the majority of whom were youth. The program was a great success in its ability to disarm society, dissolve the military ranks of the Revolutionary United Front and reduce the size of the Sierra Leonean
News Roundup: 11 March – 17 March 2013
By: Sean Jellow | Monday, March 18th, 2013Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the SSR Resource Centre posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects and updates on SSR related events over the past week. Be sure to come back every Monday to see what has been happening in the field in this SSR Weekly roundup! -
Hybrid Models of Governance in Afghanistan
By: Vanessa Humphries | Friday, March 15th, 2013Security Governance Group Senior Associate Humayun Hamidzada co-authored a recent paper in the Journal of Peacebuilding & Development with Ali Wardak. The brief, The Search for Legitimate Rule, Justice and a Durable Peace: Hybrid Models of Governance in Afghanistan, highlights achievements and failures over the past decade on Afghanistan’s search for legitimate rule, justice and
SSR and Civil Society: Opportunities Across Cases
By: Isaac Caverhill-Godkewitsch | Thursday, March 14th, 2013Successful Security Sector Reform (SSR) requires the buy-in of multiple actors and stakeholders. In government processes of SSR, civil society (CS) is often neglected. CS is an important and effective actor for SSR security as it supports reform and stability across sectors. By improving human rights, increasing dialogue, and dispersing a civil mentality, CS effectively
News Roundup: 1 March - 10 March 2013
By: Sean Jellow | Monday, March 11th, 2013Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the SSR Resource Centre posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects and updates on SSR related events over the past week. Be sure to come back every Monday to see what has been happening in the field in this SSR Weekly roundup!
Securing the Sahel: From Mali to Niger
By: Sean Jellow | Friday, March 8th, 2013In the western Sahel, limited resources, institutional resistance, and little political will for security sector reform (SSR) exacerbates the threat of a regional conflict, as French and African military forces push Mali’s Islamist rebels into surrounding countries. This is particularly true of Niger, where SSR is a relatively unknown concept and where there has been
Bahrain: National dialogue continues, but reform is in doubt
By: Aly Verjee | Tuesday, March 5th, 2013Some foreign ministries are quite keen to mark anniversaries. Solemn tones can be invoked, momentous events recalled, official steps in according historical weight taken (and the process of historical revisionism begun.) Already in 2013, the U.S. Department of State marked the tenth anniversary of the international day of zero tolerance to female genital mutilation/cutting (February
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