Security Sector Reform In Conflict Affected Countries

Author : Mark Sedra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317390800

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Security Sector Reform in Conflict-Affected Countries by Mark Sedra Pdf

This book examines the evolution, impact, and future prospects of the Security Sector Reform (SSR) model in conflict-affected countries in the context of the wider debate over the liberal peace project. Since its emergence as a concept in the late 1990s, SSR has represented a paradigm shift in security assistance, from the realist, regime-centric, train-and-equip approach of the Cold War to a new liberal, holistic and people-centred model. The rapid rise of this model, however, belied its rather meagre impact on the ground. This book critically examines the concept and its record of achievement over the past two decades, putting it into the broader context of peace-building and state-building theory and practice. It focuses attention on the most common, celebrated and complex setting for SSR, conflict-affected environments, and comparatively examines the application and impacts of donor-supported SSR programing in a series of conflict-affected countries over the past two decades, including Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The broader aim of the book is to better understand how the contemporary SSR model has coalesced over the past two decades and become mainstreamed in international development and security policy and practice. This provides a solid foundation to investigate the reasons for the poor performance of the model and to assess its prospects for the future. This book will be of much interest to students of international security, peacebuilding, statebuilding, development studies and IR in general.

Author : Albrecht Schnabel,Vanessa Farr
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Adedeji Ebo,Heiner Haenggi
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Ursula Schroeder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317440024

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Building Security in Post-Conflict States by Ursula Schroeder Pdf

Support for security and justice institutions has become a crucial instrument of international engagement in fragile and conflict-affected states. In attempts to shore up security as a precondition for sustainable peace, international actors have become deeply engaged in reforming the security agencies and security governance institutions of states emerging from conflict. But despite their increasing importance in the field of international peace- and state-building, security sector reform (SSR) interventions remain both highly political and deeply contentious processes. Expanding on this theme, this edited volume identifies new directions in research on the domestic consequences of external support to security sector reform. Both empirically and theoretically, the focus lies on the so far neglected role of domestic actors, interests and political power constellations in recipient states. Based on a wide range of empirical cases, the volume discusses how the often conflictual and asymmetric encounters between external and domestic actors with divergent interests and perceptions affect the consequences of international interventions. By taking into account the plurality of state and non-state security actors and institutions beyond classical models of Weberian statehood, the contributions make the case for engaging more closely with the complexity of the domestic security governance configurations that can result from external engagement in the field of security sector reform. This book was published as a special issue of International Peacekeeping.

Author : Sean McFate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Civil-military relations
ISBN : UOM:39015070002343

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Securing the Future by Sean McFate Pdf

Author : Sean McFate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1379606702

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Securing the Future: A Primer on Security Sector Reform in Conflict Countries by Sean McFate Pdf

Author : Adedeji Ebo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Security, International
ISBN : 9783643853110

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The United Nations and Security Sector Reform by Adedeji Ebo Pdf

Author : Sarah Jane Meharg,Aleisha Arnusch
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584874188

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Security Sector Reform by Sarah Jane Meharg,Aleisha Arnusch Pdf

This monograph discusses the definition of security sector reform (SSR) and its components. An examination of case studies of SSR in Haiti, Liberia, and Kosovo assess the value of these programs.

Author : Albrecht Schnabel,Hans Born
Publisher : Ubiquity Press
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Nadine Ansorg,Eleanor Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000282238

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Co-operation, Contestation and Complexity in Peacebuilding by Nadine Ansorg,Eleanor Gordon Pdf

Security Sector Reform (SSR) remains a key feature of peacebuilding interventions and is usually undertaken by a state alongside national and international partners. External actors engaged in SSR tend to follow a normative agenda that often has little regard for the context in post-conflict societies. Despite recurrent criticism, SSR practices of international organisations and bilateral donors often remain focused on state institutions, and often do not sufficiently attend to alternative providers of security or existing normative frameworks of security. This edited collection explores three aspects that add an important piece to the puzzle of what constitutes effective Security Sector Reform (SSR). First, the variation of norm adoption, norm contestation and norm imposition in post-conflict countries that might explain the mixed results in terms of peacebuilding. Second, the multitude of different security actors within and beyond the state which often leads to multiple patterns of co-operation and contestation within reform programmes. Third, how both the multiplicity of and tension between norms and actors further complicate efforts to build peace or, as complexity theory would posit, influence the complex and non-linear social system that is the conflict-affected environment. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.

Author : Adrian Morrice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1921933178

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Security Sector Reform Trends by Adrian Morrice Pdf

This paper examines the articulation of the SSR concept in the development, peace and security communities. At the time of writing, there were five peacekeeping and five political missions with explicit SSR mandates from the UN Security Council, with the growth of political missions (Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Burundi and Nepal) a recent phenomenon. The paper discusses what SSR has come to encompass, including principles that underpin international support. Sovereignty is a fundamental principle for national actors receiving support in this area, and evaluations stress the need to be adaptable and to tailor each program. The politics of funding SSR is also examined, and found to manifestly affect how international actors support SSR. The paper concludes with a summary of the SSR community and its civilian capacity.

Author : Albrecht Schnabel,Hans-Georg Ehrhart
Publisher : UNU
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015063222106

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Security Sector Reform and Post-conflict Peacebuilding by Albrecht Schnabel,Hans-Georg Ehrhart Pdf

Military and police forces play a crucial role in the long-term success of rebuilding efforts in post-conflict societies. Yet, while charged with the long-term task of providing a security environment conducive to rebuilding war-torn societies, internal security structures tend to lack civilian and democratic control, internal cohesion and effectiveness, and public credibility. They must be placed under democratic control and restructured and retrained to become an asset, not a liability, in the long-term peacebuilding process. External actors from other nations, regional organizations, and the United Nations can be of assistance in this process by creating a basic security environment, preventing remnants of armed groups from spoiling the fragile peacebuilding process, and by facilitating reform of the local security sector. This book offers examples and analyses by an international group of academics and practitioners with direct experiences with security sector reform programs. The case studies offer the reader a useful laboratory in which comparisons can be made and observations tested. It will be useful to policymakers interested in understanding the complexity of addressing security sector reform and civil-military relations.--W. Andy Knight, University of Alberta, Canada.

Author : David Murray Law,David Law
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Intergovernmental cooperation
ISBN : 9783825807528

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Intergovernmental Organisations and Security Sector Reform by David Murray Law,David Law Pdf

Intergovernmental organisations (IGOs) play a crucial role in security sector reform and governance (SSR/G). In virtually all instances of recent and current SSR programme delivery, IGOs have either led the SSR effort or supported the lead provided by other actors. How this role is played is of vital importance for the prospects of fostering durable security and development in a wide range of countries. This volume looks at a selection of organisations that have been in the forefront of SSR activity or that have the potential for significantly developing their SSR agendas in the future. These IGOs are the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the European Union (EU), the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Council of Europe (CoE), the Economic Organisation of West African States (ECOWAS), the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This year's volume is divided into four parts: conceptual issues; case studies on how IGOs have approached SSR in programme areas that are particularly representative of their overall action; case studies on the way various actors, primarily but not exclusively IGOs, have worked with each other in implementing SSR and supporting its implementation; and conclusions drawn from the various case studies as well as policy recommendations for future IGO work in the area of SSR/G.

Author : Marc Krupanski
Publisher : Ubiquity Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781911529323

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The Rule of Law and Security Sector Reform by Marc Krupanski Pdf

There is a clear need to better understand the relationship between two concepts at the heart of peacebuilding: the Rule of Law (RoL), and Security Sector Reform (SSR). If it is acknowledged in principle that they are interdependent, in practice enduring conceptual ambiguities and contradictions undermine latent synergies. As a consequence, international donor agencies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the benefits of their RoL and SSR assistance. This SSR Paper moves the RoL-SSR debate forward through examining these activities jointly within a peacebuilding context. It proposes a heuristic framework that helps to rationalize this relationship on a conceptual level, demonstrating that RoL and SSR are interdependent and mutually reinforcing. The resulting framework provides a basis for the development of coherent policies that can support the development of coordinated, complementary programmes on the ground.

Author : Alan Bryden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Civil-military relations
ISBN : IND:30000092824303

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Security Sector Reform by Alan Bryden Pdf