Leer en español On 17 December, the US and Cuba announced that they would be moving to restore diplomatic ties and release respective nationals held as prisoners. President Obama has committed his country to reviewing the embargo that has been in place since 1962 – the longest-standing one on the planet. By 2017, just before 
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Monthly Archive
January | 2015
The US - Cuba Rapprochement and its Broader Implications
By: David Law | Friday, January 30th, 2015Event Videos - Contemporary Debates on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding: Is Peacebuilding Dying?
By: Geoff Burt | Thursday, January 29th, 2015In case you were unable to attend the Centre for Security Governance’s live eSeminar on Wednesday January 28, you can view all of the presentations and discussion period here: Introductory Remarks - Dr. Mark Sedra Presentation - Dr. Paul Jackson Presentation - Dr. Anna Jarstad Presentation - Dr. Roger Mac Ginty Discussion Period The Centre
Security Sector Reform and the Rule of Law in South Sudan
By: Margarita Yakovenko | Thursday, January 29th, 2015On June 17, 2014, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies held its 15th Senior Leaders Seminar in Washington D.C. The theme was Regional Responses: Security Sector Reform and Rule of Law. This is a video of a presentation made at the seminar by Ibrahim Wani, the Director of Human Rights, United Nations Mission in South
News Roundup: 19 January - 25 January
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, January 26th, 2015Want 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!
Extending the FDLR disarmament deadline will only prolong the agony
By: Stephanie Wolters | Thursday, January 22nd, 2015This week all eyes were to be on the joint summit between the South African Development Community (SADC) and the International Conference on the Great Lakes (ICGLR) that was proposed by South African President Jacob Zuma earlier this month, but this event has now been cancelled, apparently at the behest of Angola, which currently holds
Publication Summary: The UN Mission in South Sudan’s Growing Challenges
By: Margarita Yakovenko | Tuesday, January 20th, 2015As the civil war continues in South Sudan, it is important to examine growing challenges faced by the UN mission (UNMISS) and how best to addressing them. The Stimson Center’s report “Will They Protect Us for the Next 10 Years?” Challenges Faced by the UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan does this remarkably well. It
News Roundup: 12 January - 18 January
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, January 19th, 2015Want 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!
News Roundup: 6 January - 12 January 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, January 12th, 2015Want 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!
Security Sector Reform in North Africa: Why It’s Not Happening
By: Robert M. Perito | Wednesday, January 7th, 2015Popular discontent with the repressive nature of security institutions and security forces in North Africa was the precipitating cause of the uprisings that composed the Arab Spring. Across the region the security apparatus was structured to protect regimes from their people. Security ministries, military and police were instruments of internal repression. Security forces operated with
A Window of Opportunity for Reforms in the Congo’s Security Sector?
By: Nina Wilen | Wednesday, January 7th, 2015Please see Nina Wilén’s SSR 2.0 Brief for a more detailed treatment of this topic. Articles and reports about security sector reform (SSR) and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are nowadays often ignored or shrugged off by analysts and researchers alike for several reasons. Firstly, because SSR-DDR
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