Law enforcement in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada has seen a substantial transformation over the past half century, primarily due to its inextricable ties to legislation. Some practitioners and professionals allege that 9/11 was the marquee event that signified not only a new type of terrorism, but a new type of policing, broadened by 
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July | 2015
The Thin Blue Line and The Impact of Terrorism on the Transformation of Law Enforcement
By: Valarie Findlay | Friday, July 31st, 2015Backgrounder - Al-Shabaab Beyond Somalia
By: Lema Ijtemaye | Thursday, July 30th, 2015Earlier this month on the 10th of July, two separate hotels were attacked in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, which resulted in the death of 5 people. A subsequent security operation by Somali security forces brought the attack to an end, yet the group responsible for the attack clearly demonstrated the fragility of the Somali
News Roundup: 20 July - 26 July 2015
By: Antoine Vandemoortele | Monday, July 27th, 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!
Wartime experiences making gender security policy: A feminist perspective on hybridity
By: Laura McLeod | Tuesday, July 21st, 2015Power relations between the local and the international lie at the very core of gendered analyses about hybrid peace processes. We need to recognize the power of both the local and international, and to reflect upon the complexity of experience. Who experiences war? And what are the effects of these experiences?
What’s in a World War: From World War I to the new Cold War
By: David Law | Tuesday, July 21st, 2015We are republishing on the SSR Resource Centre the first contribution by Centre for Security Governance Senior Fellow David Law - who is also a CDA Instiute Security & Defence Blogger. In this five-part series originally published on the CDA Institute blog:The Forum, he explores the development and scope of what he terms World War IV. This
Farmer-Herder Clashes Amplify Challenge for Beleaguered Nigerian Security
By: Michael W. Baca | Monday, July 20th, 2015Nigeria’s new president has made the task of finishing off the Boko Haram insurgency an immediate priority for his administration. Since his May 29 inauguration, Muhammadu Buhari has held multiple meetings with neighboring heads of state and relocated his anti-Boko Haram headquarters to the epicenter of the insurgency, in Borno State. Yet, while Nigeria’s security apparatus appears
News Roundup: 13 July - 19 July 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, July 20th, 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! Security Sector Reform Resource
Publication Announcement - CSG Insight No.7: Paramilitary Violence and Policing in Northern Ireland
By: SSR Resource Centre | Thursday, July 16th, 2015The Centre for Security Governance has just published its latest CSG Insight, “Paramilitary Violence and Policing in Northern Ireland” written by Branka Marijan and Seán Brennan. This article analyzes the impact of paramilitary activity and violence on the legitimacy and practices of the reformed Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). To read this CSG Insight, click here.
News Roundup: 6 July - 12 July 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, July 13th, 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!
UN Security Council Targeted Sanctions in South Sudan; for whom and for what?
By: Matthew LeRiche | Monday, July 13th, 2015The targeted sanctions announced by the UN Security Council with respect to the conflict in South Sudan, once again raise major questions regarding the use of targeted sanctions as peacebuilding tools. The current sanctions have problems in terms of their core conception, their non-political designations, the selection of the specific individuals, and most importantly the
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