If the ability to hold credible, peaceful elections is a key litmus test of a country’s progress towards democratic consolidation, the latest evidence from Haiti is far from encouraging. The electoral cycle that began in August 2015 – following months of delays and governance by presidential decree – was meant to renew Haiti’s democratic institutions, 
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Monthly Archive
January | 2016
Haiti and the Democracy-Public Security Interface
By: Stephen Baranyi and Timothy Donais | Wednesday, January 27th, 2016Reading List - Security Sector Reform in Haiti
By: Antoine Vandemoortele | Tuesday, January 26th, 2016With Haiti President stepping down without a successor in February 2016, and with security governance and security governance being key issues at both the national and local levels, the SSR Resource Centre created this SSR Country Snapshot to highlight key recent publications published by the Centre for Security Governance.
News Roundup: 18 January - 24 January 2016
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, January 25th, 2016Want 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!
Publication Summary - Community security in Kenya’s frontiers
By: Tereza Steinhublova | Friday, January 22nd, 2016Saferworld’s new report “Matching needs with resources: National Police Reserve and community security in Kenya’s frontiers” analyzes the state of the National Police Reserve (NPR), the primary community security provider in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands, discussing the problems the NPR faces as well as identifying lessons and opportunities for improving its effectiveness and accountability.
Publication Announcement - CSG Insight No.10: Ukraine’s Updated Security Sector Laws: What promise do these laws hold?
By: Antoine Vandemoortele | Tuesday, January 19th, 2016The Centre for Security Governance has just published its latest CSG Insight, “Ukraine’s Updated Security Sector Laws: What promise do these laws hold?” written by Joseph L. Derdzinski. This article analyzes recent updates and changes to Ukraine’s security sector laws. The author provides a useful overview and assessment of the challenges to security sector reform in
News Roundup: 11 January - 17 January 2016
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, January 18th, 2016Want 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!
Theorizing corruption in the Afghan judicial sector
By: Danny Singh | Wednesday, January 13th, 2016The purpose of this blog is to identify and analyze the dynamics of corruption at its systemic roots that has led to forms of state capture, low pay resulting in petty forms of corruption and issues with training within the Afghan judicial sector. The main empirical contribution of this paper is based on 70 semi-structured interviews
News Roundup: 4 January - 10 January
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, January 11th, 2016Want 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!
New SSR Resource - Defence Resource Management Course
By: Ross Fetterly | Friday, January 8th, 2016A one-week Defence Resource Management Course was developed for the Ukraine National Defence University in Kiev. This important new training resource, funded by the Directorate of Military Training and Cooperation within the Department of National Defence (Canada) was first taught in February 2015 by an experienced team of senior Canadian military officers, and it was
News Roundup: 28 December 2015 - 3 January 2016
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, January 4th, 2016Want 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!
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