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August | 2015
News Roundup: 24 August - 30 August 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, August 31st, 2015Publication Announcement - CSG Paper No.2: Civil Military Cooperation and Security Sector Reform in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
By: Antoine Vandemoortele | Friday, August 28th, 2015The Centre for Security Governance has just published its latest CSG Paper, “Civil Military Cooperation and Security Sector Reform in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies” written by David Last. This CSG Paper analyzes the nature of civil military relations and describes how they affect civil military cooperation and civil affairs in complex humanitarian emergencies. Understanding these relationships helps professionals 
Publication Announcement - CSG Insight No.8: Programming Tools: Another Way of Keeping External Control of the SSR Process?
By: Antoine Vandemoortele | Wednesday, August 26th, 2015The Centre for Security Governance has just published its latest CSG Insight, “Programming Tools: Another Way of Keeping External Control of the SSR Process?” written by Dr. Anthony Welch. This article analyzes new tools available for more effective security sector reform programming. The author argues that such SSR programming tools might however be another way of keeping the decision making in external hands and away
News Roundup: 17 August - 23 August 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, August 24th, 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!
Does research influence security sector reform policy? Evidence from a Sierra Leone case-study
By: Andrea Edoardo Varisco | Friday, August 21st, 2015A recent article from Conflict, Security & Development focuses on the influence of research on British-led security sector reform (SSR) in Sierra Leone, examining some general issues and themes that characterize the use of research in SSR policy in fragile, conflict-affected environments.
Four Weaknesses of South Sudan’s Military Integration Process
By: Lesley Anne Warner | Tuesday, August 18th, 2015Since the fracturing of the South Sudanese military in December 2013, South Sudan has been embroiled in civil war. As ongoing peace negotiations are likely to contain transitional security arrangements that would contain provisions to integrate non-statutory armed forces into the South Sudanese military, it is important to understand what factors previously compromised the implementation
News Roundup: 10 August - 16 August 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, August 17th, 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!
Overview & Blog Archive - Academic Spotlight series
By: Antoine Vandemoortele | Friday, August 14th, 2015The new Academic Spotlight blog series features recent research findings on security sector reform and security governance published in international relations academic journals. It provides a venue to promote discussion within the academic-policy nexus and develop opportunities to share and exchange on key SSR issues and themes. The blog posts published in this series summarize
News Roundup: 3 August - 9 August 2015
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, August 10th, 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!
Urban Gangs Make Comeback as Political Goons in Haiti
By: Moritz Schuberth | Monday, August 3rd, 2015It is commonly perceived that the motivation of Haiti’s urban gangs has changed from political to criminal – falsely so as my research has found. Rather, the function gangs fulfill for their sponsors is constantly shifting between political and criminal, as evidenced by the current re-emergence of political violence ahead of elections later this year.
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