New SSR Resource Centre post by Blog Contributor Chris Kwaja discusses the Boko Haram insurgency and roots of conflict in Nigeria, with a particular focus on the role of the security sector in both exacerbating and addressing these factors. “He (African) loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility” Lord Lugard 
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September | 2013
Rethinking Insurgencies and State Failure in Nigeria
By: Chris Kwaja | Monday, September 30th, 2013News Roundup: 23 September - 29 September
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, September 30th, 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
News Roundup: 16 September - 22 September
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, September 23rd, 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
Mainstreaming Gender: Gender Constructs in Post-Conflict Reconstruction
By: SSR Resource Centre | Thursday, September 19th, 2013New blog post by SSR Resource Centre Blog Contributor Alison Bottomley discusses gender constructs in DDR and SSR and how these perceptions may be influencing the way we approach post-conflict reconstruction. Mainstreaming gender is a crucial practice in post-conflict reconstruction (PCR) but how practitioners understand gender is preventing gender equity rather than ensuring it. Gender
Introducing the Global Online Counter Child Trafficking Conference
By: Chris Bordeleau | Monday, September 16th, 2013From October 16-18, the Security Governance Group will facilitate the first Global Online Counter Child Trafficking Conference (CCTC), which will bring together a global community of individuals and organizations that are working to counter the illegal trafficking and exploitation of children.
News Roundup: 9 September - 15 September 2013
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, September 16th, 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
Ukraine’s SSR: Halting Progress
By: Joe Derdzinski | Friday, September 13th, 2013With an academic specialization in Eastern Europe, coupled with training as a comparativist, I am admittedly predisposed to the region. My short argument is that I believe Eastern Europe can keep any scholar engaged in our pursuit of the universal lessons to be drawn from specific cases. In that vein, recently I had the chance
Somalia: The New Deal and Non-State Security Actors
By: Matthew Redding | Tuesday, September 10th, 2013New post from Security Governance Group Project Manager, Matthew Redding discusses the ‘New Deal for Somalia’ conference, non-state security providers and civil society organizations. On September 16th, the ‘New Deal for Somalia’ conference will be held in Brussels, co-hosted by Somalia’s Federal Government and the European Union. The event is meant to build on the
News Roundup: 2 September - 8 September
By: SSR Resource Centre | Sunday, September 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. Click here to sign-up for the SSR Weekly newsletter and have the News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week! News
News Roundup: 26 August - 1 September
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, September 2nd, 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
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