The purpose of this blog is to identify and analyze the dynamics of corruption at its systemic roots that has led to forms of state capture, low pay resulting in petty forms of corruption and issues with training within the Afghan judicial sector. The main empirical contribution of this paper is based on 70 semi-structured interviews 
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Theorizing corruption in the Afghan judicial sector
By: Danny Singh | Wednesday, January 13th, 2016Publication Announcement - CSG Insight No.6: Learning from Failure? British and European Approaches to Security and Justice Programming
By: Antoine Vandemoortele | Thursday, May 14th, 2015The Centre for Security Governance has just published its latest CSG Insight, “Learning from Failure? British and European Approaches to Security and Justice Programming” written by Antoine Vandemoortele. This article discusses recent evaluation reports of UK and EU security and justice programming and analyzes alternative and innovative security sector reform (SSR) strategies. To read this CSG Insight, click here.
New Criminal Justice Codes: The Impact in Latin America and Eastern Europe
By: Linn Hammergren | Wednesday, June 4th, 2014In the late 1980s, Latin American nations began reforming their criminal justice systems. The initial reforms emphasized due process rights to reverse abuses exacerbated under dictatorial regimes. Moderate but stable crime rates made system efficacy a lesser concern. Similar reforms are occurring in Eastern Europe, spurred by European Union (EU) accession criteria. Both regions introduced parallel measures to enhance
Decentralizing Justice and Security in Liberia
By: Gavin Raymond | Wednesday, February 26th, 2014SSR Resource Centre Blog Contributor Gavin Raymond is a SSR consultant specializing in West and Central Africa. He examines justice and security reform in Liberia, and the corresponding lessons for second-generation SSR.
The Politics of Justice Reform in Haiti
By: Geoff Burt | Tuesday, April 30th, 2013One of the most persistent criticisms of SSR practice is its inability to operate in a politically attuned way; the reform process instead tends to be treated as a technocratic, bureaucratized problem. While I agree with these general critiques, I’m also left wanting a more detailed account of which political forces derail SSR programming—and how—within
Hybrid Models of Governance in Afghanistan
By: Vanessa Humphries | Friday, March 15th, 2013Security Governance Group Senior Associate Humayun Hamidzada co-authored a recent paper in the Journal of Peacebuilding & Development with Ali Wardak. The brief, The Search for Legitimate Rule, Justice and a Durable Peace: Hybrid Models of Governance in Afghanistan, highlights achievements and failures over the past decade on Afghanistan’s search for legitimate rule, justice and
A Complex Systems Approach to the Drug War in Mexico: Resources, Violence and Order
By: Geoff Burt | Friday, January 20th, 2012CIGI Researcher Michael Lawrence has published a paper at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Complexity and Innovation entitled “A Complex Systems Approach to the Drug War in Mexico: Resources, Violence and Order.” While other accounts stress the chaotic turmoil of the conflict, this approach begins by examining the relationship between the violence and the
Danish Institute for Human Rights’ Fergus Kerrigan discusses Informal Justice Systems
By: Geoff Burt | Monday, July 25th, 2011The head of the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) Access to Justice Programme, Fergus Kerrigan, discusses informal justice systems in series of videos (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4). This is one of the topics the Security Sector Governance Project at CIGI is currently working on, and I learned a lot from
CIGI’s first SSR Issue Paper discusses SSR in Haiti one year after the earthquake
By: Geoff Burt | Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011The SSR Resource Centre is pleased to announce the launch of the SSR Issue Papers. The first paper, entitled “Security Sector Reform in Haiti: One Year After the Earthquake,” is written by Isabelle Fortin, an independent researcher in the field of security and justice system reform, specializing in community violence, gender-based violence and public security
Reconciling the formal and the informal: New report provides framework for informal justice reform
By: Jesse Hembruff | Wednesday, August 4th, 2010The concept of informal justice has long been a sticking point for justice reform practitioners. In many target countries informal justice systems have existed for decades, in some cases resolving 70-90 percent of disputes, and are inexorably tied to local customs and notions of justice. This is a double edged sword. Informal justice can be
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