The targeted sanctions announced by the UN Security Council with respect to the conflict in South Sudan, once again raise major questions regarding the use of targeted sanctions as peacebuilding tools. The current sanctions have problems in terms of their core conception, their non-political designations, the selection of the specific individuals, and most importantly the 
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UN Security Council Targeted Sanctions in South Sudan; for whom and for what?
By: Matthew LeRiche | Monday, July 13th, 2015Backgrounder – Boko Haram and Political Instability in Nigeria
By: Lema Ijtemaye | Tuesday, July 29th, 2014Boko Haram’s activities have been escalating steadily in Nigeria; the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Borno earlier this year being the most recent indicator of the group’s growing threat to Nigeria’s political stability. Indeed, the group is viewed by many experts as a direct challenge the state’s corrupt nature and its general inability to address
SSR and the Crisis in CAR
By: David Law | Thursday, December 12th, 2013Security Governance Group Senior Associate David Law looks at the crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR). He reflects on his own experiences in the country and describes the shortcomings of previous attempts to reform the security sector, which failed to prevent the current situation.
Interview with Landon Hancock: Zones of Peace, Non-State Actors, and the Security Sector
By: Matthew Redding | Friday, November 1st, 2013Dr. Landon Hancock teaches at Kent University’s Center for Applied Conflict Management and Department of Political Science. He is the co-editor of two volumes: Zones of Peace (2007) and Local Peacebuilding and National Peace (2012). Security Governance Group Project Manager Matt Redding recently had the chance to sit down with Dr. Hancock while he was
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