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 agree with these general critiques, I’m also left wanting a more detailed account of which political forces derail SSR programming—and how—within 
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April | 2013
The Politics of Justice Reform in Haiti
By: Geoff Burt | Tuesday, April 30th, 2013News Roundup: 22 April - 28 April 2013
By: Sean Jellow | Monday, April 29th, 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. **NEW** Click here to have the SSR Weekly delivered straight to your inbox every Monday! - News Articles 12,600 Peacekeepers for Mali
Analyzing Intersecting, Concurrent Conflicts: Observations from Yemen
By: Steven Zyck | Thursday, April 25th, 2013Yemen is currently experiencing a number of intersecting security crises. These include long-standing tribal conflicts and decades-long battles over land and water that are believed to result in thousands of fatalities per year. Since 2004 the Houthi movement has carved out a large portion of the country’s far north. In the south, separationist movements seeking
Reform by Incentives
By: Frederic Labarre | Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013Barry 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 between rulers and ruled, i.e., legitimacy of governance. That the second edition of that work was published around the time of the collapse of the USSR is no
News Roundup: 15 April 2013 - 21 April 2013
By: Sean Jellow | Monday, April 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 Monday to see what has been happening in the field in this SSR Weekly roundup!
Rethinking “Capacity Building”
By: Geoff Burt | Wednesday, April 17th, 2013I was at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in San Francisco this month, presenting a paper with Timothy Donais, a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and an SGG Senior Associate. I was struck by one of the papers on our panel and how it challenged my thinking on the notion of “capacity” and by
Containing Technology-Driven Conflict in a Hyper-Polar World
By: Mark Sedra | Monday, April 15th, 2013In the decade ahead, the changing face of global conflict will place new pressure on security sectors in the developed and developing world. Addressing these new threats means adapting to the fluidity of the new technology-driven security landscape.
News Roundup: 8 April – 14 April 2013
By: Sean Jellow | Monday, April 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 Monday to see what has been happening in the field in this SSR Weekly roundup! -
Live Webcast Event: Advancing Women’s Civil Society Organizations in Security Sector Reform
By: Vanessa Humphries | Tuesday, April 9th, 2013Webcast Event: Wednesday April 10 2013 at 10:00 AM EDT on www.usip.org/webcast. Don’t miss this live webcast! An expert panel will discuss women’s participation in security sector reform, looking specifically at the relationship between women in civil society and the security sector. The event is hosted by the United States Institute of Peace’s Center for Gender
Transitional Justice and SSR: The case of Sierra Leone
By: Chris Bordeleau | Monday, April 8th, 2013Academics, think tanks, and non-government organizations (NGOs) alike are starting to take notice of the relationship between transitional justice and security sector reform (SSR).[1]
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