Conference Report: At the Margins of SSR: Gender and Informal Justice
The conference aimed to increase awareness of gender and informal justice, two areas of security sector reform (SSR) that have often been overlooked.
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Month: March 2011
“African Women on the Thin Blue Line.” New NSI Book Discusses Gender and Police Reform
In giving voice to women, the book provides a unique perspective on police reform and SSR in general.
Read More CIGI’s First SSR Issue Paper Discusses SSR in Haiti One Year After the Earthquake
The paper examines how the security and justice reforms were affected by the earthquake, and the new security challenges faced by the population in the post-earthquake period.
Read More ISA Convention: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom on Failed States
Findings call into question the shift from a humanitarian to a security focus in our policy towards failed states and statebuilding in the aftermath of 9/11. We should be more critical of the assumption, now adopted by both the security and development communities, that all failed states represent a threat to global security.
Read More ISA Convention: “The Role of Domestic Police in Counterinsurgency Operations”
The role of domestic police in counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan, the Philippines and Iraq show that a focus on building bottom up capacity by training large numbers of new police officers while neglecting the reform of the ministries and oversight processes needed to manage them is not only ineffective but can be counter-productive.
Read More ISA Convention: “The Monopoly of Force: The Nexus Between Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) and Security Sector Reform (SSR)”
There are numerous missed opportunities to leverage the complementarity of DDR and SSR, including: establishing a veterans administration to care for former combatants, using DDR practitioners’ knowledge to facilitate the effective procurement of weapons for the security forces and the vetting of candidates, as well as the management of weapons stockpiles.
Read More Ottawa Panel Discusses the Development of Second Generation SSR Model
Closing that gap is a critical feature of the second generation SSR model. The concept of second generation SSR is not intended to replace the fundamental values or frameworks of the first generation model, but to adapt and update them to reflect the challenging contexts where SSR is most often implemented.
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