Security Sector Reform In Liberia Mixed Results From Humble Beginnings

Author : Mark Malan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : IND:30000139801488

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Security Sector Reform in Liberia by Mark Malan Pdf

The author presents an explanatory overview and analysis of progress made with the process of security sector reform in Liberia -- with particular reference to the armed forces and the police. The author begins with a concise review of what the theory of SSR and its application in the Liberian context and follows with a description of Liberia's post-war security architecture and the urgent need for a comprehensive and sustained process of reform. An overview of the legal and conceptual framework for engaging in SSR in Liberia is provided as further backdrop to substantive sections dealing with the reform (or re-building) of the Armed Forces of Liberia and the Liberia National Police. The author concludes with a critical analysis of the SSR process and recommendations for further action.

Author : Strategic Studies Institute,Mark Malan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 1312288612

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Security Sector Reform in Liberia: Mixed Results from Humble Beginnings by Strategic Studies Institute,Mark Malan Pdf

The reform and the democratic control of the security sector-and the joining together of security and development-have become a major focus of international intervention into post-conflict societies. In theory, security sector reform (SSR) programs derive from a comprehensive national defense and security review. They involve, at the core, the transformation of a country's military and police forces-but they also involve a comprehensive review and restructuring of intelligence services, the penitentiary, the judiciary, and other agencies charged in some way with preserving and promoting the safety and security of the state and its citizenry. However, the process of SSR in Liberia, supported by the United Nations, the United States, and a number of bilateral donors, is far more rudimentary than the conceptual paradigm suggests. It is aimed simply at the training and equipping of the army and the police, with little attention or resources being devoted to the other components of the security system.

Author : Adedeji Ebo
Publisher : Dcaf
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Liberia
ISBN : 9292220403

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The Challenges and Opportunities of Security Sector Reform in Post-Conflict Liberia by Adedeji Ebo Pdf

Author : Charles T. Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317801672

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UN Peace Operations and International Policing by Charles T. Hunt Pdf

This book addresses the important question of how the United Nations (UN) should monitor and evaluate the impact of police in its peace operations. UN peace operations are a vital component of international conflict management. Since the end of the Cold War one of the foremost developments has been the rise of UN policing (UNPOL). Instances of UNPOL action have increased dramatically in number and have evolved from passive observation to participation in frontline law enforcement activities. Attempts to ascertain the impact of UNPOL activities have proven inadequate. This book seeks to redress this lacuna by investigating the ways in which the effects of peace operations – and UNPOL in particular – are monitored and evaluated. Furthermore, it aims to develop a framework, tested through field research in Liberia, for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) that enables more effective impact assessment. By enhancing the relationship between field-level M&E and organisational learning this research aims to make an important contribution to the pursuit of more professional and effective UN peace operations. This book will be of much interest to students of peace operations, conflict management, policing, security studies and IR in general.

Author : Adedeji Ebo,Heiner Haenggi
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Alan Bryden,Fairlie Chappuis
Publisher : Ubiquity Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781909188686

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Learning from West African Experiences in Security Sector Governance by Alan Bryden,Fairlie Chappuis Pdf

Many efforts have been undertaken to address dysfunctional security sector governance in West Africa. However, security sector reform (SSR) has fallen short of radical – transformational – change to the fundamental structures of power and governance in the region. Looking more closely at specific examples of SSR in six West African countries, Learning from West African Experiences in Security Sector Governance explores both progress and reversals in efforts by national stakeholders and their international partners to positively influence security sector governance dynamics. Written by eminent national experts based on their personal experiences of these reform contexts, this study offers new insights and practical lessons that should inform processes to improve democratic security sector governance in West Africa and beyond.

Author : Sarah Meharg,Aleisha Arnusch,Susan Merrill
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781300051442

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Security Sector Reform: A Case Study Approach to Transition and Capacity Building by Sarah Meharg,Aleisha Arnusch,Susan Merrill Pdf

The authors explore the definition of Security sector reform (SSR) as it has emerged in the international community. The makeup of the security sector is examined, principles are identified for implementing SSR, and outcomes SSR is intended to produce are specified. Supporting case studies assess specific SSR programs. The authors conclude that those conducting SSR programs must understand and continually revisit the policy goals of SSR programs so as to develop concepts that support a transitional process that moves forward over time. State actors must acknowledge and often accommodate nonstate security actors more effectively in SSR planning and implementation, while recognizing both the advantages and the risks of collaborating with such actors. The authors also note the need for more flexible and better integrated funding processes. (Originally published by the Strategic Studies Institute.)

Author : D. Francis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137010582

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Policing in Africa by D. Francis Pdf

This wide-ranging collection offers fresh insights into a critical factor in development and politics on the African continent. It critically examines and illustrates the centrality of policing in transition societies in Africa, and outlines and assesses the emergence and impact of the diversity of state and non-state policing agencies.

Author : Susanne Mulbah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351711609

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State-building Interventions in Post-Conflict Liberia by Susanne Mulbah Pdf

Post-conflict Liberia has been subjected to extensive international state-building, at some point hosting the largest and one of the longest UN peacekeeping missions in the world, and inflow of aid that exceeds in multiples the GDP. In order to understand the international state-building efforts in Liberia, it is pertinent to reflect them against the extractive and predatory nature of the Liberian republic, and the central role natural resources exploitation and plantations have played in accommodating transnational interest in the country’s abundant natural resources and fertile land. This book focuses on the political economy of Liberian state-building, and in particular the question of the governance of natural resources. By combining a historical perspective and ethnographic knowledge, the author examines a number of interrelated questions: How was access to the state distributed in Liberian state-building? How are those to be governed and their representation included in political economic decision making, and more particularly, in decisions over natural resources governance? This book will be of interest to students and scholars of state-building, international development, African political science and political economy.

Author : Ursula Schroeder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Nadine Ansorg,Eleanor Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000282276

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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 : Doctor Paul Higate,Mats Utas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786990280

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Private Security in Africa by Doctor Paul Higate,Mats Utas Pdf

Across Africa, growing economic inequality, instability and urbanization have led to the rapid spread of private security providers. While these PSPs have already had a significant impact on African societies, their impact has so far received little in the way of comprehensive analysis. Drawing on a wide range of disciplinary approaches, and encompassing anthropology, sociology and political science, Private Security in Africa offers unique insight into the lives and experiences of security providers and those affected by them, as well as into the fragile state context which has allowed them to thrive. Featuring original empirical research and case studies ranging from private policing in South Africa to the recruitment of Sierra Leoneans for private security work in Iraq, the book considers the full implications of PSPs for security and the state, not only for Africa but for the world as a whole.

Author : Christopher von Dyck
Publisher : Ubiquity Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781911529415

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DDR and SSR in War-to-Peace Transition by Christopher von Dyck Pdf

While disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and security sector reform (SSR) have become integral statebuilding tools in post-conflict states, the existing empirical literature examining their relationship has focused on supply-side considerations related to the programming of both processes. In practice, though, DDR and SSR are implemented in the wider context of war-to-peace transitions where the state is attempting to establish a monopoly over the use of force and legitimize itself in the eyes of domestic and international communities. This paper therefore assumes that to identify opportunities and constraints for establishing closer practical linkages between DDR and SSR it is important to take the local politics into consideration. It examines two past externally driven peacebuilding interventions in West Africa, namely Liberia and Sierra Leone, featuring cases in which the central state had essentially fragmented or collapsed. Through this comparative analysis, the paper aims to provide a stepping-stone for future studies examining demand-side considerations of DDR and SSR in post-conflict contexts.

Author : David Chandler,Timothy D. Sisk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135940010

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Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding by David Chandler,Timothy D. Sisk Pdf

This new Handbook offers a combination of theoretical, thematic and empirical analyses of the statebuilding regime, written by leading international scholars. Over the past decade, international statebuilding has become one of the most important and least understood areas of international policy-making. Today, there are around one billion people living in some 50-60 conflict-affected, 'fragile' states, vulnerable to political violence and civil war. The international community grapples with the core challenges and dilemmas of using outside force, aid, and persuasion to build states in the wake of conflict and to prevent such countries from lapsing into devastating violence. The Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding is a comprehensive resource for this emerging area in International Relations. The volume is designed to guide the reader through the background and development of international statebuilding as a policy area, as well as exploring in depth significant issues such as security, development, democracy and human rights. Divided into three main parts, this Handbook provides a single-source overview of the key topics in international statebuilding: Part One: Concepts and Approaches Part Two: Security, Development and Democracy Part Three: Policy Implementation This Handbook will be essential reading for students of statebuilding, humanitarian intervention, peacebuilding, development, war and conflict studies and IR/Security Studies in general.

Author : Terrence K. Kelly,Nora Bensahel,Olga Oliker
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780833052223

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Security Force Assistance in Afghanistan by Terrence K. Kelly,Nora Bensahel,Olga Oliker Pdf

Security force assistance (SFA) is a central pillar of the counterinsurgency campaign being waged by U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan. This monograph analyzes SFA efforts in Afghanistan over time, documents U.S. and international approaches to building the Afghan force from 2001 to 2009, and provides observations and recommendations that emerged from extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan in 2009 and their implications for the U.S. Army.