The third edition of the Security Sector Reform Monitor: Southern Sudan examines the endemic corruption that has emerged in Southern Sudan after a prolonged civil war. In contrast to the many researchers who claim that corruption is embedded in Sudanese society, this edition of the Monitor suggests that the situation in Southern Sudan is a 
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Third edition of the Security Sector Reform Monitor: Southern Sudan examines corruption
By: Geoff Burt | Friday, November 26th, 2010Final thoughts on the NATO summit in Lisbon
By: Aly Verjee | Wednesday, November 24th, 2010Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was right. NATO’s new strategic concept has more than a few vague sentences and blanks to be filled in later. To take a few particularly choice and detail-deficient articles: “9. During the next decade, proliferation will be most acute in some of the world’s most volatile regions.” (Breaking news?) “19.
SSR Resource Centre expert blogs from final day of Lisbon summit
By: Aly Verjee | Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010On Saturday, the final day of the summit, we had a videoconference to hear the opinions of Afghan university students on the present situation in Kandahar, Herat, and Kabul. The Bulgarian and Slovak foreign ministers stopped by to share their thoughts on the approved strategic concept. Slovakia’s Mikuláš Dzurinda described the concept as “a new
SSR Resource Centre expert blogs live from Lisbon summit (part 3)
By: Aly Verjee | Friday, November 19th, 2010Deep into Afghanistan - An Admiral, a General, an Ambassador and a Sceptic: Adm. Jim Stavridis, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) “I agree with President Obama that NATO is the most successful alliance in the history of the world.” “I believe in the critical value of languages. In the US only 8% of DOD
SSR Resource Centre expert blogs live from Lisbon summit (part 2)
By: Aly Verjee | Friday, November 19th, 2010SSR Centre contributor Aly Verjee is attending the NATO Summit of Heads of State and Government in Lisbon, which is expected to endorse a new strategic security concept for NATO. Mid-morning, we (the two Canadian delegates) were invited for a brief chat with Prime Minister Harper, Defence Minister MacKay and Foreign Minister Cannon on Afghanistan,
SSR Resource Centre expert blogs live from Lisbon summit
By: Aly Verjee | Thursday, November 18th, 2010SSR Centre contributor Aly Verjee is attending the Young Leaders Summit running in parallel with the NATO Summit of Heads of State and Government in Lisbon. The Heads of State and Government meeting opens tomorrow, and is expected to endorse a new strategic security concept for NATO. He is blogging live from Parque Das Nações
Mexican President’s Proposed Military Jurisdiction Reform Perpetuates Impunity, Say Human Rights Organizations
By: Kristin Bricker | Monday, November 15th, 2010On October 18, Mexican President Felipe Calderón sent Congress a proposed reform to the country’s “military jurisdiction,” in which the military investigates and tries all alleged crimes committed by active-duty soldiers. Mexican and international human rights organizations, the United Nations, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) have long criticized Mexico’s continued use of
Four elections, four months
By: Aly Verjee | Wednesday, November 10th, 2010Work has taken me to witness some interesting elections these last few months – June/July in Somaliland for the first presidential polls since 2003; in August, a brief trip to Kenya on the eve of a constitutional referendum, a vote which relieved citizens and spectators alike for avoiding communal violence, as happened in the aftermath
Security Sector Reform (SSR) and Drugs: Not a Domestic Policy Tool
By: Geoff Burt | Thursday, November 4th, 2010Drug trafficking is a global problem affecting both developed and developing countries through drug abuse, organized crime, corruption and violence. Though its reach is universal, the drug trade’s burdens are not equally shared; the harm associated with drug trafficking is particularly acute in countries whose pre-existing governance issues threaten the stability of the state. In
Can mobile phone technology help address ANSF absenteeism?
By: Geoffrey Wong | Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010Currently, one of the daunting challenges facing the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) has been attrition. By the end of each year, less than half of the 86,000 people recruited, trained and assigned to the Afghan army will remain. Between the Afghan police and soldiers, NATO trainers will have wasted resources on 85,000 personnel who
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