Reform And Reconstruction Of The Security Sector

Author : Alan Bryden,Heiner Hänggi
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Armed forces reorganisation
ISBN : 3825877701

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Reform and Reconstruction of the Security Sector by Alan Bryden,Heiner Hänggi Pdf

"Security sector reform (SSR) is widely recognised as key to conflict prevention, peace-building, sustainable development and democratisation. SSR has gained most practical relevance in the context of post-conflict reconstruction of so-called failed states' and states emerging from violent internal or inter-state conflict. As this volume shows, almost all states need to reform their security sectors to a greater or lesser extent, according to the specific security, political and socio-economic contexts, as well as in response to the new security challenges resulting from globalisation and post-9/11 developments. Contributions from academics and practitioners elaborate on both the conceptual underpinnings and the practical realities of security sector reform and - a crucial aspect of post-conflict peace-building - security sector reconstruction. "

Author : Albrecht Schnabel,Vanessa Farr
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783643801173

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Back to the Roots by Albrecht Schnabel,Vanessa Farr Pdf

There has now been more than a decade of conceptual work, policy development, and operational activity in the field of security sector reform (SSR). To what extent has its original aim, to support and facilitate development, been met? The various contributions to this book address this question, offering a range of insights on the theoretical and practical relevance of the security-development nexus in SSR. They examine claims of how and whether SSR effectively contributes to achieving both security and development objectives. In particular, the analyses presented in the book provide a salutary lesson that development and security communities need to take each other's concerns into account when planning, implementing, and evaluating their activities. The book offers academics, policy-makers, and practitioners within the development and security communities relevant lessons, suggestions, and practical advice for approaching SSR as an instrument that serves both security and development objectives. (Series: Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces [DCAF])

Author : Albrecht Schnabel,Hans Born
Publisher : Ubiquity Press
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781911529286

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Security Sector Reform by Albrecht Schnabel,Hans Born Pdf

The persistent gap between theory and practice in SSR can be a source of much irritation and disappointment at failures to implement SSR norms as well as in response to concepts and strategies that seem unhelpfully far removed from local realities. This paper compares ideal-case SSR environments with real-life conditions of implementing SSR. Through offering suggestions for better practice in SSR implementation, it shows that the art of applied SSR can be learned.

Author : Michael Brzoska,Law David
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136760839

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Security Sector Reconstruction and Reform in Peace Support Operations by Michael Brzoska,Law David Pdf

This volume provides a framework for analyzing security sector reform under international tutelage.Following violent conflict and military interventions, international organizations or coalitions of countries increasingly engage in post-conflict reconstruction. Part of the international post-conflict agenda is thereconstruction orreform of th

Author : P. Jackson,P. Albrecht
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230302471

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Reconstructing Security after Conflict by P. Jackson,P. Albrecht Pdf

A long-term evaluation and analysis of the UK's involvement in Sierra Leone before and after the conflict which ended in 2002. This book looks at how UK intervention moved from initial involvement through to war fighting and then post-conflict reconstruction, specifically of the security infrastructure.

Author : Robert Perito
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Institution building
ISBN : UOM:39015075675523

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The Interior Ministry's Role in Security Sector Reform by Robert Perito Pdf

The most critical, and most often neglected, focus of security sector reform (SSR) is the bureaucratic agency responsible for the police and other internal security forces. In Iraq, Afghanistan, and earlier peace and stability operations, the United States went directly to the task of training indigenous police, giving little thought to the interior ministry, the institution to which the police would report.

Author : Adedeji Ebo,Heiner Haenggi
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783643803115

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The United Nations and Security Sector Reform by Adedeji Ebo,Heiner Haenggi Pdf

Multilateral organizations - the United Nations (UN) in particular - have played, and continue to play, an important role in shaping the security sector reform (SSR) agenda, both in terms of policy development and the provision of support to a wide range of national SSR processes. This volume presents a variety of perspectives on UN support to SSR, past and present, with attention to policy and operational practice. Drawing from the experience of UN practitioners combined with external experts on SSR, this volume offers an in-depth exploration of the UN approach to SSR from a global perspective.

Author : Adedeji Ebo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Security, International
ISBN : 9783643853110

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The United Nations and Security Sector Reform by Adedeji Ebo Pdf

Author : Albrecht Schnabel,Hans Born
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Military policy
ISBN : 9292221795

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Security Sector Reform by Albrecht Schnabel,Hans Born Pdf

Author : Zoltan Barany,Sumit Bisarya,Sujit Choudhry,Richard Stacey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192588845

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Security Sector Reform in Constitutional Transitions by Zoltan Barany,Sumit Bisarya,Sujit Choudhry,Richard Stacey Pdf

Security sector reform (SSR) is central to the democratic transitions currently unfolding across the globe, as a diverse range of countries grapple with how to transform militias, tribal forces, and dominant military, police, and intelligence agencies into democratically controlled and accountable security services. SSR will be a key element in shifts from authoritarian to democratic rule for the foreseeable future, since abuse of the security sector is a central technique of autocratic government. This edited collection advances solutions through a selection of case studies from around the world that cover a wide range of contexts.

Author : Jane Chanaa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198516746

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Security Sector Reform by Jane Chanaa Pdf

Over the last decade the failure of countries to emerge from conflict has focused attention on state security sectors. This book examines how the external approaches to security sector reform (SSR) have evolved and what they entail; the specific problems faced by the SSR agenda; and what policy recommendations for engagement can be drawn from reform experiences.

Author : Judy Smith-Höhn
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783643800749

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Rebuilding the Security Sector in Post-conflict Societies by Judy Smith-Höhn Pdf

In Liberia and Sierra Leone, strategies to reform and reconstruct the security sector have centred on re-establishing the state's monopoly on the use of force. However, little attention is given to the array of non-state actors that often play a major role in how individuals and communities experience security. Rebuilding the Security Sector in Post-Conflict Societies: Perceptions from Urban Liberia and Sierra Leone seek to address this gap by applying a human security approach to security provision across these two contexts. A key point of departure is that in the long run there can be no alternative within post-conflict societies to a locally owned security sector. Operationalising the concept of local ownership means that internationally-supported security sector reform (SSR) activities need to reflect these local realities. As explored within this study, fostering synergies between state and non-state security actors may therefore offer an important avenue to support more sustainable, legitimate SSR efforts. Judy Smith-H�¶hn is a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, South Africa. Prior to her present position she was a research fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs in Hamburg, Germany and later a senior researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town in South Africa. Her thematic emphases lie in the areas of violent conflict and its prevention, and security sector reform within a regional focus on Liberia, Sierra Leone, Zambia and Zimbabwe. She has published nationally and internationally on topics ranging from security sector reform and postconflict peacebuilding to democratic transformation in South Africa. She holds a PhD from the University of Leipzig, Germany, and a Diplom (masters degree) in Political Science from the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : National security
ISBN : 1861924739

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Understanding and Supporting Security Sector Reform by Anonim Pdf

Author : Querine Hanlon,Richard H. Shultz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1601273134

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Prioritizing Security Sector Reform by Querine Hanlon,Richard H. Shultz Pdf

Prioritizing Security Sector Reform: A New U.S. Approach argues that security sector reform should be at the core of a new U.S. policy to strengthen the security sector capacity of countries where U.S. interests are at stake. Today's fragile environments feature a host of postconflict and postauthoritarian states and transitioning and new democracies that have at least one critical thing in common: Their security sectors are dysfunctional. Why these states cannot fulfill their most basic function-the protection of the population and their government-varies widely, but the underlying reason is the same. The security sector does not function because security sector institutions and forces are absent, ineffective, predatory, or illegitimate. In place of large, boots-on-the-ground interventions relying on expensive train and equip programs with only fleeting impact, Washington needs a new approach for engaging in fragile environments and a policy for prioritizing where it engages and for what purpose. The volume offers case studies to exemplify the context in which a new U.S. approach might be warranted, discusses other countries' experiences with security sector reform policies and examines how the United States should design and implement a security sector reform policy. Book jacket.

Author : Pedro Rosa Mendes
Publisher : Ubiquity Press
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781911529408

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Business and Security Sector Reform by Pedro Rosa Mendes Pdf

Challenges to security and human rights involving extractive and other industries gave rise to an evolving framework of policy, standards and good practice generally known as business and human rights (BHR). Problems with inefficient and unaccountable security institutions are addressed by security sector reform (SSR). From an empirical perspective – the view from the often mutual operating grounds of BHR and SSR – both approaches share many challenges, as well as end goals. It is thus striking that only on rare occasions are challenges in governance of the security sector addressed upfront as problems of poor resource governance, and vice versa. This paper describes the grounds where SSR and BHR coincide in principles, actors and activities, and which synergies can be built on that base. It makes the business case for SSR, and the SSR case for business. The paper assesses how SSR can channel resources and know-how from business to address critical challenges related to ownership, capacity and sustainability of reform processes. Opportunities for bridging BHR and SSR are drawn from a broad range of policy and guidance, and by looking at lessons from case studies on Guinea, Colombia and Papua New Guinea. SSR and BHR should not collide; ideally, they should cohere. A variety of multistakeholder initiatives open new opportunities to bring this about, with particular relevance to SSR in extractive environments. The overall conclusion, supported by practical propositions for implementation, is that the existing policies and standards in SSR and BHR already allow, and call for, a less rigid approach to the challenges addressed in both fields.