The 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 
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November | 2014
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, 2014News 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
America’s Chamberlain? Obama and the Challenge of American Power
By: David Law | Thursday, November 13th, 2014If we are honest about our efforts to prevent serious conflict, our track record is weak, to say the least. We fail to prepare for strategic discontinuities. We embrace deals that rest on sand. We often only seriously begin to address threats to our country’s population and material wealth when we no longer have the
Note - Georgia’s Security Sector Review Project Final Report 2014
By: SSR Resource Centre | Tuesday, November 11th, 2014The Atlantic Council of Georgia has just published the Final Report of its Georgia Security Sector Review Project, with the support of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The report offers a “review of the institutional, functional and legal aspects of the Georgian security sector,” in particular its ministries of defence, internal affairs, as
News Roundup: 3 November – 9 November
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, November 10th, 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!
Is Military Intervention in Libya the Answer?
By: Raeesah Cachalia | Wednesday, November 5th, 2014Three years after the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, Libya is far from the democratic state many had envisioned and hoped for. Instead the country finds itself fragmented into an alarming number of armed groups, raising fears of a full-scale civil war.
News Roundup: 27 October – 2 November
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, November 3rd, 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!
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