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Weekly News Roundup: 13 May – 20 May 2013

By: Sean Jellow | Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the SSR Resource Centre posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects and updates on SSR related events over the past week. **NEW** Click here to have the SSR Weekly delivered straight to your inbox every Monday!  – - News Articles Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organization Read the post

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Field Report: International Security Forum & Partnership for Peace Consortium Annual Conference

By: Frederic Labarre | Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

Security Governance Group Associate Frederic Labarre writes a field report based on his experiences at the 10th International Security Forum and the 15th Partnership for Peace Consortium Annual Conference from 22 April – 24 April 2013. To read the full post, click here. The joint International Security Forum (ISF) and Partnership for Peace Consortium (PfP C) Annual Conference were a Read the post

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News Roundup: 6 May – 12 May 2013

By: Sean Jellow | Monday, May 13th, 2013

Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the SSR Resource Centre posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects and updates on SSR related events over the past week. **NEW** Click here to have the SSR Weekly delivered straight to your inbox every Monday! –   News Articles  Elections in Zimbabwe May Read the post

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Fading Hope for SSR in Zimbabwe

By: Sean Jellow | Thursday, May 9th, 2013

Sean Jellow, a Research and Communications Intern at the Security Governance Group, explains the state of security sector reform in Zimbabwe in light of the upcoming elections.  Click here to read the full post. Hope for security sector reform in Zimbabwe is disappearing quickly as the political crisis in the country drives a deepening wedge into the Read the post

Tags MDC, Mugabe, Zanu-PF, Zimbabwe
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News Roundup: 25 April – 5 May 2013

By: Sean Jellow | Monday, May 6th, 2013

Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the SSR Resource Centre posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects and updates on SSR related events over the past week. **NEW** Click here to have the SSR Weekly delivered straight to your inbox every Monday! – - News Articles Chiefs Will Not Meet Read the post

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The Politics of Justice Reform in Haiti

By: Geoff Burt | Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

Security Governance Group Vice President Geoff Burt overviews the politics of justice reform in Haiti in SGG post. Click here to read the full article. One of the most persistent criticisms of SSR practice is its inability to operate in a politically attuned way; the reform process instead tends to be treated as a technocratic, bureaucratized problem. While I Read the post

Tags Capacity, Haiti, justice reform, Political Elites
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News Roundup: 22 April – 28 April 2013

By: Sean Jellow | Monday, April 29th, 2013

Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the SSR Resource Centre posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects and updates on SSR related events over the past week. **NEW** Click here to have the SSR Weekly delivered straight to your inbox every Monday! – News Articles 12,600 Peacekeepers for Mali Read the post

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Analyzing Intersecting, Concurrent Conflicts: Observations from Yemen

By: Steven Zyck | Thursday, April 25th, 2013

Steven A. Zyck, a Security Governance Group Associate, recently completed a consulting project related to conflict in Yemen. Here he writes on two overarching lessons that emerged from this work. Click here to read the full post.   Yemen is currently experiencing a number of intersecting security crises. These include long-standing tribal conflicts and decades-long battles Read the post

Tags Al Qaeda, conflict drivers, Yemen
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Reform by Incentives

By: Frederic Labarre | Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

In this new post, Security Governance Group Associate Frederic Labarre discusses incentivizing security sector reform by making it materially attractive. To read the full post, click here.    Barry Buzan wrote in his seminal Peoples, States and Fear (2nd Ed., 1991), that states were internally “strong” or “weak” depending on the solidity of the bond Read the post

Tags Algeria, Estonia, Foreign Direct Investment, Incentives, security sector reform
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News Roundup: 15 April 2013 – 21 April 2013

By: Sean Jellow | Monday, April 22nd, 2013

Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the SSR Resource Centre posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects and updates on SSR related events over the past week. Be sure to come back every Monday to see what has been happening in the field in this SSR Weekly roundup!   Read the post

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