The concept of organised crime often evokes images of mafia-like figures and secret societies involved in acts like drug trafficking and murder. Globally, this ‘mafia mystique’ is associated with shadowy organisations such as the Chinese triads or Japanese yakuza, while in South Africa, the focus is often on notorious figures like Radovan Krejcir. In reality, however, the organised criminal economy 
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September | 2015
The business of (dis)organised crime in South Africa
By: Khalil Goga | Tuesday, September 29th, 2015News Roundup: 22 September - 28 September 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, September 28th, 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!
Publication Announcement - SSR 2.0. Brief No.4: A Decade of Police Reform in Liberia: Perceptions, Challenges and Ways Ahead
By: Antoine Vandemoortele | Friday, September 25th, 2015The Centre for Security Governance has just published its latest SSR 2.0. Brief, “A Decade of Police Reform in Liberia: Perceptions, Challenges and Ways Ahead“, written by Franzisca Zanker.
News Roundup: 15 September - 21 September 2015
By: Antoine Vandemoortele | Monday, September 21st, 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!
The domestic consequences of SSR: Real-world effects beyond external perspectives
By: Ursula C. Schroeder and Fairlie Chappuis | Tuesday, September 15th, 2015Local ownership has always been central to the theory of security sector reform (SSR) in post-conflict contexts – practically every policy concept in circulation among bilateral donors or multilateral institutions makes local ownership of the reform agenda a sine qua non for external support to SSR. But these calls for local ownership echo hollow against
News Roundup: 7 September - 14 September 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, September 14th, 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!
The Unity State Factor and the South Sudan Peace Agreement
By: Brian Adeba | Monday, September 14th, 2015On August 26th, President Salva Kiir of South Sudan reluctantly signed a peace deal that would end nearly 20 months of fighting between government troops and rebels of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – in-opposition (SPLM-IO). Nine days earlier on August 17th, at a ceremony in Ethiopia, Kiir had refused to sign the agreement, citing
A sub-national approach to statebuilding and security: the role of municipal institutions in Colombia’s DDR process
By: Francy Carranza Franco | Monday, September 7th, 2015The Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) process in Colombia was built nationally, but it was consolidated at the sub-national level: the Mayoral Offices of Bogota and Medellin developed programmes for the reintegration of ex-combatants that played a crucial role in both sustaining and contesting the national policy of reintegration The analysis of these policies contributes
News Roundup: 31 August - 6 September 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, September 7th, 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!
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