Antoine Vandemoortele, Senior Researcher and Publications & Communications Manager at the Centre for Security Governance, recently discussed with Paul Biddle, an experienced security sector governance practitioner, about his role as Strategic Police Advisor to the UK Embassy in Baghdad, the Coalition Joint Task Force Operation “Inherent Resolve” and the Governor of Anbar in Iraq between 
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Police reform in Iraq: Challenges and Lessons Learned (Part I)
By: Antoine Vandemoortele | Tuesday, August 9th, 2016Backgrounder – The Emergence of the Islamic State
By: Matthew Morgan | Friday, August 22nd, 2014The rapid advance in June of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Shām (ISIS) across northern Iraq, capturing its second largest city, Mosul and threatening to advance on Baghdad, stunned global security experts and policy makers alike. The collapse and retreat of the Iraqi army demonstrates, more than anything, the abject failure of American policy
Against the Odds: The Case for Greater Western Intervention in Syria and Iraq
By: Erwin van Veen | Thursday, August 21st, 2014The Syrian civil war is now in its third year and continues unabated. A battlefield resolution remains unlikely: the imminent capture of Aleppo by the regime is being offset by rapid advances of the Islamic State in eastern Syria – taking in the city of Deir-ez-Zour, major oilfields, and nearly all strongpoints on the Euphrates
The Lesser Evil: When Does it Make Sense to Intervene on Behalf of Incumbents?
By: Danny Hirschel-Burns | Thursday, August 14th, 2014A few weeks ago, Edward H. Carpenter came out with two compelling posts (here and here) in the Duck of Minerva. In his first article, he notes that the Islamic State’s (IS) advance in Syria and Iraq is only one example of recent victories by mobile, non-state Islamic fundamentalist groups organized as networks. In his
CIGI workshop on SSR highlights new trends and tensions
By: Mark Sedra | Monday, April 12th, 2010From March 11-12, 2010, CIGI held a workshop in Ottawa, sponsored by the Canadian Ministry of Public Safety, on “Security Sector Reform: Principles and Practice” (see description of workshop here). Attended by officials from across the Canadian government and a collection of SSR experts and practitioners from throughout the world, the aim of the workshop
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