Women’s participation in security sector reform (SSR) is often stated on paper, but overlooked in practice. With the goal of addressing this gap, the Institute for Inclusive Security and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) has released a vital Toolkit: A Women’s Guide to Security Sector Reform. The guide concretely outlines ways for women in 
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By: Vanessa Humphries | Thursday, February 28th, 2013Haiti’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
News Roundup: 15 Feb — 21 Feb 2013
By: Sean Jellow | Friday, February 22nd, 2013Want 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 Friday to see what has been happening in the field in this SSR Weekly round-up! -
DCAF Summary Report: Gender Training in SSR
By: Vanessa Humphries | Thursday, February 21st, 2013With over a decade of experience in working on gender and security issues, the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) recently hosted a three-day workshop (June 2012) on gender training for the security sector. The workshop, stemming from DCAF’s Gender and Security Sector Reform Capacity Building project, produced a final summary
The Iraqi Security Force after the Americans
By: Matthew Redding | Wednesday, February 20th, 2013Since the US withdrawal in 2011, Iraq has largely faded from the headlines of Western news outlets. But recently, reports of mass protests, that stem in part from problems with Iraq’s security sector, have made their way into focus. There is increasing evidence that Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki is consolidating power by exercising control
News Roundup: 8 Feb — 14 Feb 2013
By: Sean Jellow | Friday, February 15th, 2013Want 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 Friday to see what has been happening in the field in this SSR Weekly round-up! -
Institutional Influences on Guatemala’s SSR
By: Joe Derdzinski | Monday, February 11th, 2013Wracked by violence and poverty, the political and economic reforms that have brought relative prosperity and liberal governance across Latin America seem, until recently, to have bypassed Guatemala. This was not due to lack of international attention. In fact, despite the tens of millions of dollars that donors have invested in the justice and security
News Roundup: 1 Feb – 7 Feb 2013
By: Sean Jellow | Friday, February 8th, 2013Want 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 Friday to see what has been happening in the field in this SSR Weekly round-up!
SGG Associates Win Major Research Grants
By: Mark Sedra | Thursday, February 7th, 2013SGG President Mark Sedra was recently awarded two research grants from European Foundations for projects focusing on different issues related to security sector reform (SSR). The projects will be undertaken through the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The first project, conceived with SGG Associate Michael Lawrence, is titled “Non-State Security Providers and Political
Three Approaches to Security: Prevention, Protection, and Resilience
By: Michael Lawrence | Monday, February 4th, 2013The Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas in Cartagena is the largest and strongest fortress the Spanish ever built in their colonies. Constructed between 1639 and 1657, then expanding considerably in 1762, the fort defended the “gateway to the new world” from multiple attacks and was never taken. The strategies employed to make the fortress
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