The 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.” Our fourth event will be held on Friday February 26 from 12:00PM to 1:30PM EST and will 
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Free online event - Climate Change, the Environment and Peacebuilding
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, February 22nd, 2016Local and External Perceptions of Security Sector Reform in Guinea-Bissau
By: Christoph Kohl | Friday, February 5th, 2016For almost ten years, the small West African country of Guinea-Bissau has been subject to security sector reform as part of international peacebuilding interventions. Since gaining independence in 1973-74, the former Portuguese colony has been characterized by political instability, coups d’état, military overthrow attempts, and the interference of military factions within politics.
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
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
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?
Publication Announcement – eSeminar Summary No. 4: “Is Peacebuilding Dying?”
By: SSR Resource Centre | Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015The Centre for Security Governance has just published eSeminar Summary No. 4 on “Is Peacebuilding Dying?” following its eSeminar event that took place on January 28, 2015. This short report summarizes the presentations of all three panelists, synthesizes their main conclusions, and explores some of the issues discussed during the event. The Centre for Security Governance (CSG),
SSR, DDR and SALW Tools for Peacebuilding Practitioners
By: Margarita Yakovenko | Wednesday, February 4th, 2015The Peacebuilding Centre is a Canadian non-government organization that consolidates good practice for peacebuilding and human security, and focuses on assembling operational tools compiled over many years by contributions from multiple peacebuilding experts and practitioners. Its purpose is to make it easier for peacebuilding practitioners to find practical approaches to: 1. engage with fragile states, 2. conduct Early Warning – Early Response assessments to address root causes
Publication Summary – When do disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programmes succeed?
By: Lema Ijtemaye | Friday, April 25th, 2014A publication by the German Development Institute focuses on the successful implementation of disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration (DDR) programs. The paper asserts that ex-combatants who do not engage in DDR programs often pose serious threats to the fragile political stability of those states. In turn, the failure of reintegration may also lead to the re-recruitment
Interview with Landon Hancock: Zones of Peace, Non-State Actors, and the Security Sector
By: Matthew Redding | Friday, November 1st, 2013Dr. Landon Hancock teaches at Kent University’s Center for Applied Conflict Management and Department of Political Science. He is the co-editor of two volumes: Zones of Peace (2007) and Local Peacebuilding and National Peace (2012). Security Governance Group Project Manager Matt Redding recently had the chance to sit down with Dr. Hancock while he was
Mali: Cautious Optimism as Transition Begins
By: Matthew Redding | Friday, June 14th, 2013Four months ago I wrote a piece on the situation in Mali after the drafting of UN resolution 2085. This authorized the African-led International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA), consisting of troops from the African Union and ECOWAS, to take action against rebel and terrorist groups in the North, assist in the political transition and
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