The SSR Resource Centre is now accepting applications for the SSR Experts Directory, an open source, searchable directory which we hope will help facilitate interactions between academics, policy-makers and practitioners who may not otherwise be exposed to each others work. If you have experience in SSR generally, or any of its various components (military, justice, 
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By: Geoff Burt | Thursday, July 28th, 2011Forward Operating Base Djibouti: Africa’s Leading Host for Western Military Operations
By: Aly Verjee | Wednesday, July 27th, 2011The Republic of Djibouti rarely makes the headlines. Overshadowed by much larger countries in the Horn of Africa – Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, and with trouble spots Eritrea and Yemen a respective camel and dhow ride away – not to mention the neighbouring web of chaos that is Somalia – Djibouti appears serene in an otherwise
Danish Institute for Human Rights’ Fergus Kerrigan discusses Informal Justice Systems
By: Geoff Burt | Monday, July 25th, 2011The head of the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) Access to Justice Programme, Fergus Kerrigan, discusses informal justice systems in series of videos (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4). This is one of the topics the Security Sector Governance Project at CIGI is currently working on, and I learned a lot from
ISSAT blog offers engaging practitioner analysis of SSR
By: Geoff Burt | Wednesday, July 20th, 2011I would like to direct your attention to a terrific new resource for SSR news and analysis. The International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT) at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) launched a new blog this April which features analysis from ISSAT staff and invited expert bloggers on key developments
Videos: Bruce Baker discusses state and non-state policing in Africa
By: Geoff Burt | Monday, July 18th, 2011For those who are interested in non-state policing and SSR, here is a link to a series of interesting lectures from Bruce Baker, Professor of African Security at Coventry University. The roughly 30-minute lectures include: Video One: Policing, State & Non-State in Africa Video Two: The State Police in Africa Video Three: Security Sector Reform
Report Highlights Areas for Improvement in EU SSR Efforts in the DRC
By: Jonathan_Blackham | Tuesday, July 12th, 2011A recent report by the Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael), provides a useful and succinct evaluation of current EU efforts to support SSR in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This report, entitled “The EU’s Support to Security System Reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Perceptions from the field in Spring 2010,
Upcoming event: Returning Government to Colombia’s Conflictive Zones
By: Geoff Burt | Monday, July 11th, 2011This Wednesday, from 3:00-4:30PM, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is holding an event in Washington that will discuss efforts by the Colombian government–supported by USAID–to extend governance into former conflict zones. The Integrated Governance Response Program (IGRP) “could become a model for foreign assistance support for state reform without leaving a large
Three new tools now available on SSR Resource Centre
By: Geoff Burt | Tuesday, July 5th, 2011In the last week, the SSR Resource Centre has launched three new tools: an interactive document library, an open source, searchable experts directory, and a private, password-protected forum. Our document library–the SSR Research Community–is based on the research tool Zotero (www.zotero.org), which allows users to: organize and document their research items; capture websites and .pdfs
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