Security Sector Reform Resource Centre

Despite billions spent on defence reform globally, policymakers lack the tools and methodology to accurately assess “the state of the defense sector in a given country, to provide them with a systematic way of determining a country’s capabilities to achieve various security goals [...] or to monitor the success of defense sector programs over time.”

The Security and Defense Network of Latin America (RESDAL) has released the fourth edition of its Comparative Atlas of Defence. The publication, a result of two years of research which features for the first time description and analysis of defence and security realities in the Caribbean region, is now called the Comparative Atlas of Defence

The Africa Initiative Graduate Research Grant offers full-time graduate students the opportunity to conduct field-based research in Africa for three (3) months in one of five thematic areas: conflict resolution, energy, food security, health, and migration, with special attention to the cross-cutting issue of climate change. Participants will receive a grant of up to $10,000

On June 28, 2010, The Centre for International Governance innovation hosted a talk by rule of law expert Jasteena Dhillon. Afterwards, she sat down with Geoff Burt from the SSR Resource Centre to share her experiences with informal justice and security sector reform. Dhillon cautioned that while there are opportunities for complementarity between formal and