The Centre for Security Governance (CSG), Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), and Wilfrid Laurier University Global Studies department (WLU) are hosting a series of eight online seminars focusing on the theme of “Contemporary Debates on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding.” The third event in this series will take place on Wednesday November 25 from 12:00PM to 1:30PM EST, 
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Year | 2015
Free eSeminar - Refugees, IDPs and Peacebuilding in the Contemporary Middle East
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, November 23rd, 2015News Roundup: 16 November - 22 November 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Sunday, November 22nd, 2015Want 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!
Developing Capacity through Ukraine’s Building Integrity Training and Educational Centre
By: Ross Fetterly | Tuesday, November 17th, 2015The National Defence University of Ukraine (NDU) is contributing to change in defence within Ukraine. One noteworthy initiative is the Building Integrity Training and Education Centre (BITEC) established within the structure of the university in September 2014. The BITEC website can be accessed here. The role of the centre is to deliver building integrity courses for
News Roundup: 9 November - 15 November 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, November 16th, 2015Want 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!
Ukraine’s Updated Security Sector Laws: What promise do these laws hold?
By: Joe Derdzinski | Thursday, November 12th, 2015Multiple potholes dot Ukraine’s road to a more accountable and liberal political regime: its 12% decline in GDP this year; the military stalemate in the east and the de facto loss of Crimea; and, of course, entrenched political malaise and corruption. It is within this challenging environment that crucial political and security reforms are taking
News Roundup: 2 November - 8 November 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, November 9th, 2015Want 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!
Who’s afraid of plural security? New research on security provision beyond the state
By: Megan Price and Bart Weijs | Thursday, November 5th, 2015Security in fragile and conflict-affected contexts is provided by a multitude of actors, with varying relationships to the state (plural security provision). An October 2015 knowledge event offered academics, practitioners and policymakers a platform to present and dialogue around empirical cases of plural security provision at city level, focusing on how state and international development
The Afghan National Police: A study on corruption and clientelism
By: Danny Singh | Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015This blog identifies the underlying conditions of the Afghan state from the outset of the late 2001 Bonn political arrangement that has resulted in deep-rooted corrupt clientelistic networks within the Afghan government. This has trickled to the majority of the ministries including the Interior Ministry. Corruption is systemic and hard to combat despite police reform.
News Roundup: 26 October - 1 November 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, November 2nd, 2015Want 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!
Targeted UN Sanctions in South Sudan a Threat to Peace
By: Matthew LeRiche | Thursday, October 29th, 2015By voicing concern, Russia and Angola delayed a further round of targeted sanctions against South Sudanese leaders proposed by the UN Security Council. Many have explained this action as part of the growing geopolitical competition between Russia and the West (the USA, UK and France co-sponsored the sanctions): Russia and China are cultivating closer ties
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