Small arms proliferation is potentially the greatest security threat facing Kenya, and perhaps the East African region as a whole. Under mounting pressure to respond to the threat and maintain security, Kenya’s National Assembly will soon make a decision on modernizing its small arms and light weapons (SALW) legislation.
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Kenya Making Progress on SALW Reduction
By: Chris Bordeleau | Wednesday, July 24th, 2013News Roundup: 15 July - 21 July 2013
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UNDP Rule of Law Global Programme: Highlights from the 2012 Annual Report
By: Matthew Redding | Thursday, July 18th, 2013The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Global Programme on the Rule of Law has released a series of annual progress reports since its inception in 2008. The latest, Strengthening the Rule of Law in Crisis Affected and Fragile Situations: Global Programme Annual Report 2012 was released on 24 June 2013.
Drone Attacks: A Challenge for Pakistan’s New Government
By: Jahan Zeb | Tuesday, July 16th, 2013The newly elected government in Pakistan has spoken of halting the contentious unmanned US aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone attacks on Pakistani soil. However, these hopes were delivered a blow in recent weeks, when the US targeted al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters with a drone strike in the North Waziristan Agency of the Federal Administered Tribal
News Roundup: 8 - 14 July 2013
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, July 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. Click here to sign-up for the SSR Weekly newsletter and have the News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week! - News
Policy Roundtable on Private Security Companies in the Caribbean
By: Geoff Burt | Friday, July 12th, 2013Last month, I had the pleasure of attending a policy roundtable organized by Project Ploughshares, a Canadian NGO specializing in peace and conflict issues, and the University of the West Indies (UWI), in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. This conference was unusual in the sense that it featured an uncommonly broad range of participants,
News Roundup: 1-7 July 2013
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Innocent at Large: With the UN in the Horn of Africa. One Canadian’s Story
By: Vanessa Humphries | Thursday, July 4th, 2013On Sunday 7 July from 5:30 - 7:30 PM in Waterloo, ON, Canada, the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) is hosting the public lecture, “Innocent at Large: With the UN in the Horn of Africa: One Canadian’s Story.” The lecture is sponsored by the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, the
Un/Masking Security: Bill C-309 and the Toronto G20 Summit
By: Michael Lawrence | Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013In late June Bill C-309 became law in Canada, rendering it a criminal offense to wear a mask or otherwise conceal one’s identity during a riot or unlawful assembly with a punishment of up to ten years imprisonment. The Bill responds to the June 2010 G20 fiasco in Toronto, the June 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup
News Roundup: 24 June - 30 June 2013
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