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June | 2014
News Roundup: 23 June – 29 June
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, June 30th, 2014New Frontiers in SSR: Countering Technology-Driven Threats
By: Matthew Morgan | Thursday, June 26th, 2014Cybersecurity is a complex and multifaceted issue that governments, businesses, and individuals around the world are confronting. Criminal organizations seek to find and exploit software and hardware loopholes for illicit gains, while governments often accuse one another of spying for diplomatic and commercial advantage, especially the United States and China.
Note - SSR Country Snapshot: Liberia
By: SSR Resource Centre | Wednesday, June 25th, 2014The Centre for Security Governance is pleased to present its SSR Country Snapshot: Liberia on its SSR Resource Centre project website. Click here to see the full version.
Child Soldiers and Security Sector Reform: A Sierra Leonean Case Study
By: Carl Conradi and Shelly Whitman | Wednesday, June 25th, 2014While new wars bear a frightening multitude of distinct characteristics, there is perhaps no more grotesque hallmark of 21st century conflict than the growing involvement of children in political violence. Indeed, not only do youths suffer disproportionate victimisation at the hands of unscrupulous belligerents – they are also subject to unprecedented levels of forced or coerced 
Djibouti: Al-Shabaab’s Latest Front
By: Jay Bahadur | Tuesday, June 24th, 2014On 24 May, two Ethiopian-Somali suicide bombers, a man and a woman, entered a popular Djibouti restaurant and blew themselves up. Dozens of Western military personnel were wounded, and one Turkish national later died of his injuries.
Making DDR a Post-Election Priority in Colombia
By: Matt Ince | Tuesday, June 24th, 2014President Juan Manuel Santos’ recent victory in Colombia’s 2014 presidential election has guaranteed the continuation of the ongoing peace process between his government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Despite cautious optimism, however, a number of obstacles could still hinder Colombia’s ability to bring an end to its armed conflict against left-wing guerrilla
News Roundup: 16 June – 22 June
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, June 23rd, 2014Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!
Dysfunctional Power-Sharing and the Security Sector in Bosnia
By: Chelsea Winn | Friday, June 20th, 2014Power-sharing has gained prominence throughout the last two decades as a means of mitigating intractable conflicts. As mechanisms of conflict management, power-sharing arrangements are based on the principle of ensuring that all major segments of society have permanent political representation. While seemingly virtuous in theory, in practice power-sharing structures can become plagued by dysfunction and
Kosovo’s Home-Grown SSR: The Strategic Security Sector Review – Part Two
By: Anthony Welch | Thursday, June 19th, 2014Kosovo’s own security sector reform (SSR) process – the Strategic Security Sector Review (SSSR) – began in April 2012, updating the international community’s Internal Security Sector Review that was completed in parallel with the UN Final Status Talks on Kosovo’s independence in 2006. The structure and methodology used by the SSSR have already been discussed in Part
Kosovo’s Home-Grown SSR: The Strategic Security Sector Review – Part One
By: Anthony Welch | Wednesday, June 18th, 2014The UN Development Programme published Kosovo’s Internal Security Sector Review (ISSR) in 2006, a process that I explored in an earlier post (see here and here). In the following six years, the international community supported the development and professionalization of the fledgling entity’s security sector.
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