If 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 
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Year | 2014
America’s Chamberlain? Obama and the Challenge of American Power
By: David Law | Thursday, November 13th, 2014Note - 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!
Policing Engendered Security Sector Reform
By: Heather Murphy | Tuesday, October 28th, 2014Police reform is a primary component of any security sector reform (SSR) effort, especially since police are seen as the central institution for the protection and security of the population in most nations. Often, police are viewed negatively as agents of the state in times of conflict, frequently serving as enforcers or informants and thus
News Roundup: 20 October – 26 October
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, October 27th, 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. 1: “Security Sector Reform in the CAR”
By: SSR Resource Centre | Thursday, October 23rd, 2014The CSG has just published its inaugural SSR 2.0 Brief on “Security Sector Reform in the Central African Republic: Chronicle of a Death Foretold,” written by Teodora Fuior and CSG Senior Fellow David Law. This brief looks into the implementation of SSR in CAR, the deficiencies of its design, and the missteps made in its
DDR III and a Potential New Role for Militias in the DRC
By: Margarita Yakovenko | Monday, October 20th, 2014The rebel group Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FLDR) remains the biggest security concern for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the region. Calls for its voluntary disarmament have been voiced by the Congolese government, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), the Extraordinary Summit of the
News Roundup: 14 October – 19 October
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, October 20th, 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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