As part of our #YearInReview, this article highlights the best and most popular contributions to our SSR Resource Centre blog published in 2015. It provides a good overview of key trends, issues and events related to security sector reform and security governance in fragile and conflict-affected countries in 2015. Read and Share!
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December | 2015
Best of 2015 - SSR Resource Centre blog Top 5 articles (+1)
By: SSR Resource Centre | Wednesday, December 30th, 2015Best of 2015 - Academic Spotlight blog series Top 5 articles
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, December 28th, 2015As part of our #YearInReview, this article highlights the best and most popular contributions to our new Academic Spotlight series published in 2015. It provides a good overview of key trends in research on security sector reform and security governance published this year in academic journals. Read and Share!
News Roundup: 21 December - 28 December 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, December 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!
Backgrounder – Security sector reform, professionalization and the shift to external defense in the Philippines
By: Joann Chloe Correa | Monday, December 21st, 2015After decades of preoccupation with internal stability, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is shifting its focus to external defense as a response to the developing situation in the South Chine Sea. In its 2011-2016 National Security Plan, the Aquino government committed to reforming the Philippine security sector and bolstering the capability of the 
News Roundup: 14 December - 20 December 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, December 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!
Publication Announcement - CSG Insight No.9: Police Reform in Kenya: Challenges and opportunities
By: Antoine Vandemoortele | Wednesday, December 16th, 2015The Centre for Security Governance has just published a new CSG Insight, “Police Reform in Kenya: Challenges and opportunities” written by CSG Blog Correspondent Annie Mageka. In this contribution, the author analyzes the police reform process in Kenya and discusses recommendations to improve the state of policing in Kenya with local stakeholders she interviewed. The article provides an
News Roundup: 7 December - 13 December 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, December 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!
Security Sector Reform and the Paradoxical Tension between Local Ownership and Gender Equality
By: Eleanor Gordon | Thursday, December 10th, 2015Based on research published in Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, this blog contribution analyzes the tension that can exist between the principles of local ownership and gender equality that guide Security Sector Reform (SSR) programmes when gender discrimination and patriarchal values characterize the local environment.
Event video - Refugees, IDPs and Peacebuilding in the Contemporary Middle East
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, December 7th, 2015The 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 - ‘Refugees, IDPs and peacebuilding in the Contemporary Middle East’ - took
News Roundup: 30 November - 6 December 2015
By: Antoine Vandemoortele | Monday, December 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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