Security Governance Group President Mark Sedra explores changing technology-driven conflict dynamics and threats in his new post. In his review, he discusses cyber warfare, drones/robotics, economic warfare and transnational crime. Click here to read the full post. In the decade ahead, the changing face of global conflict will place new pressure on security sectors in the developed and 
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Containing Technology-Driven Conflict in a Hyper-Polar World
By: Mark Sedra | Monday, April 15th, 2013Disenfranchised youth in Sierra Leone: A Visit to a Diamond Mine in Kono
By: Michael Lawrence | Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013While conducting field research in Sierra Leone, Security Governance Group Associate Michael Lawrence describes his visit to a diamond mine, commenting on the role of disenfranchised youth in peacebuilding.
Policing in South Africa: A State of Crisis
By: Charlotte Watson | Thursday, March 21st, 2013Security Governance Group Associate Charlotte Watson writes on the state of South African policing, calling for the need of a police service, not a police force. She is currently based in South Africa. - Policing in South Africa is once again in the spotlight after a series of incidents which are seen to highlight police brutality and corruption.
Bahrain: National dialogue continues, but reform is in doubt
By: Aly Verjee | Tuesday, March 5th, 2013New Security Governance Group blog by Associate Aly Verjee, reviews two recent reports on security and regional stability in Bahrain. - Some foreign ministries are quite keen to mark anniversaries. Solemn tones can be invoked, momentous events recalled, official steps in according historical weight taken (and the process of historical revisionism begun.) Already in
Haiti’s Multi-Dimensional Peacebuilding Challenge
By: Geoff Burt | Wednesday, February 27th, 2013By any available measurement, security in Haiti’s urban slums has deteriorated since the 2010 earthquake, reversing a period of gradual but consistent progress from 2006–2009. UN statistics, independent household surveys, NGO figures and field interviews all suggest that the handful of neighbourhoods where most of Haiti’s violence takes place have been experiencing a rising tide
The challenge of SSR in South Sudan: Attitude as well as implementation
By: Aly Verjee | Wednesday, January 30th, 2013A Security Governance Group Post. What started this week as a trivial matter — a mid-ranking soldier’s visit to the barber in Pibor, eastern Jonglei state, South Sudan — illustrates the challenge of security sector reform and transformation in the world’s newest country. An on-again, off-again Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Army (SPLA) officer, James Duag Kuburin, needed his
Toward Second Generation SSR: Three Must-Reads
By: Mark Sedra | Monday, January 14th, 2013A Security Governance Group Post. There is no shortage of written materials on the concept of security sector reform (SSR), whether academic articles, policy reports or collections of essays. Much of this work examines how SSR has been implemented in specific reform settings, countries like Timor-Leste, Haiti, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. A majority of the voluminous country
Revisiting the Western Balkans
By: David Law | Thursday, January 10th, 2013I recently returned to the Western Balkans after an absence of over a year to attend a conference that brought together Parliamentary Defence and Security Committees from several countries of the region, as well as Turkey. The venue was Rakitje, the headquarters of RACVIAC , an organisation originally set up to supervise disarmament arrangements among
Guatemala: President Pérez Molina’s Successes and Failures
By: Ambassador Donald Planty | Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013President Pérez Molina’s first year in office has produced mixed results. The President’s administration has enjoyed some modest successes on the economic and social front but has suffered a series of disappointments and setbacks to Guatemala’s most important challenge – improving governance and security.
A Day Late and Many Advisors Short: The Uncertain Future for Afghan Ministerial Development
By: Nick Armstrong | Monday, December 17th, 2012This month the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released its latest semi-annual report to Congress on the progress toward security and stability in Afghanistan. This report provides a detailed snapshot of indictors on the overall security, governance, reconstruction, and Afghan National Security Force (ANSF) development efforts by NATO-ISAF and the international community to date. The
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