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 
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The Politics of Justice Reform in Haiti
By: Geoff Burt | Tuesday, April 30th, 2013Hybrid Models of Governance in Afghanistan
By: Vanessa Humphries | Friday, March 15th, 2013Security Governance Group Senior Associate Humayun Hamidzada co-authored a recent paper in the Journal of Peacebuilding & Development with Ali Wardak. The brief, The Search for Legitimate Rule, Justice and a Durable Peace: Hybrid Models of Governance in Afghanistan, highlights achievements and failures over the past decade on Afghanistan’s search for legitimate rule, justice and
A Complex Systems Approach to the Drug War in Mexico: Resources, Violence and Order
By: Geoff Burt | Friday, January 20th, 2012CIGI Researcher Michael Lawrence has published a paper at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Complexity and Innovation entitled “A Complex Systems Approach to the Drug War in Mexico: Resources, Violence and Order.” While other accounts stress the chaotic turmoil of the conflict, this approach begins by examining the relationship between the violence and the
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
CIGI’s first SSR Issue Paper discusses SSR in Haiti one year after the earthquake
By: Geoff Burt | Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011The SSR Resource Centre is pleased to announce the launch of the SSR Issue Papers. The first paper, entitled “Security Sector Reform in Haiti: One Year After the Earthquake,” is written by Isabelle Fortin, an independent researcher in the field of security and justice system reform, specializing in community violence, gender-based violence and public security
Reconciling the formal and the informal: New report provides framework for informal justice reform
By: Jesse Hembruff | Wednesday, August 4th, 2010The concept of informal justice has long been a sticking point for justice reform practitioners. In many target countries informal justice systems have existed for decades, in some cases resolving 70-90 percent of disputes, and are inexorably tied to local customs and notions of justice. This is a double edged sword. Informal justice can be
The uncertain future of security sector reform in Democratic Republic of Congo
By: Geoff Burt | Thursday, May 27th, 2010President Joseph Kabila has recently indicated that he would seek the withdrawal of MONUC, the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in time for the country’s 50th anniversary in 2011, despite a consensus from the international community that the Congolese security forces are not yet ready to provide security for their
Kosovo justice system facing challenges large and small
By: Jessica Teeple | Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Weak leadership and poor political support threaten the advancement of the justice system in Kosovo, according to a recent report by the International Crisis Group. Monitoring and oversight committees such as the Kosovo Judicial Council and Police Inspectorate of Kosovo are not working properly. In the North of Kosovo there is no sense of criminal
Indonesia’s Defamation Laws Hearken Back to Suharto Regime
By: Jessica Teeple | Wednesday, May 12th, 2010Twelve years after the end of Suharto’s New Order government and police-state rule, criminal defamation laws continue to have a negative effect on Indonesia’s advancement of justice reform, according to a recent report by Human Rights Watch. All states have some form of defamation law to protect public officials and civilians from unwarranted attacks on
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