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Year | 2014
News Roundup: 16 December — 22 December
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, December 22nd, 2014News Roundup: 9 December — 15 December
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, December 15th, 2014Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!
The Impact of Corruption on Security Sector Effectiveness, and What to do About It
By: James Cohen | Monday, December 8th, 2014A string of recent global security failures has focused media and political attention on the impact of corruption on security sector operational effectiveness. Whereas corruption is often viewed by international actors as a costly annoyance with mostly local effects, there is increasing recognition of the significant risks it poses for both national and international security. 
News Roundup: 2 December — 8 December
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, December 8th, 2014Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!
News Roundup: 25 November - 1 December
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, December 1st, 2014Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!
Publication Announcement - SSR 2.0 Brief No. 2, “A Window of Opportunity for Reforms in the Congo’s Security Sector?”
By: Geoff Burt | Wednesday, November 26th, 2014The Centre for Security Governance (CSG) has just published its second SSR 2.0 Brief. This brief, written by CSG Senior Fellow Nina Wilén, examines the narrow window of opportunity for reforms in the Congolese security sector, arguing that there a need for renewed and reinforced collaboration between Congolese and international partners. In particular, MONUSCO has an opportunity to grasp
News Roundup: 17 November – 24 November
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, November 24th, 2014Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!
The Boko Haram Ceasefire and the Chadian Gambit
By: Ryan Cummings | Tuesday, November 18th, 2014On 17 October, the Nigerian government unilaterally declared that it had entered into a ceasefire agreement with Boko Haram Islamists. In the same communique, Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh, further asserted that the agreement would also see the release of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist extremist sect
News Roundup: 10 November – 16 November
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, November 17th, 2014Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!
Note - Measuring Security Progress: Politics, Challenges and Solutions
By: SSR Resource Centre | Friday, November 14th, 2014The Secretariat of the Knowledge Platform Security and Rule of Law, run jointly by the Hague Institute for Global Justice and the Conflict Research Unit at Clingendael, is organizing an Expert Meeting on Thursday, November 20 to examine the issue of measuring security in the context of fragile states, in cooperation with The Netherlands Permanent
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