The Centre for Security Governance has just published its latest CSG Insight, “Learning from Failure? British and European Approaches to Security and Justice Programming” written by Antoine Vandemoortele. This article discusses recent evaluation reports of UK and EU security and justice programming and analyzes alternative and innovative security sector reform (SSR) strategies. To read this CSG Insight, click here.
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Publication Announcement - CSG Insight No.6: Learning from Failure? British and European Approaches to Security and Justice Programming
By: Antoine Vandemoortele | Thursday, May 14th, 2015Learning from failure? British and European approaches to security and justice programming
By: Antoine Vandemoortele | Friday, March 13th, 2015The latest report from the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI), UK’s aid watchdog, –Review of UK Development Assistance for Security and Justice - is highly critical of the Department for International Development (DFID)’s work on security and justice in fragile and conflict-affected countries and highlights a series of failed initiatives and challenges to overcome for 
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
News Roundup: 24 February - 2 March
By: SSR Resource Centre | Monday, March 3rd, 2014Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the SSR Resource Centre posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects and updates on SSR related events over the past week. Click here to sign-up for the SSR Weekly newsletter and have the News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!
The uncertain future of security sector reform in Democratic Republic of Congo
By: Geoff Burt | Thursday, May 27th, 2010President Joseph Kabila has recently indicated that he would seek the withdrawal of MONUC, the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in time for the country’s 50th anniversary in 2011, despite a consensus from the international community that the Congolese security forces are not yet ready to provide security for their
Security sector reforms have made “no significant progress” in DRC
By: Guy Halpern | Thursday, April 29th, 2010Four years after holding its first successful elections in four decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to be plagued by instability, rampant sexual violence and armed rebel groups, according to a recent brief by the International Crisis Group. The report highlights the deep challenges that continue to face the DRC, many of them
Democratic re-start needed in DR Congo
By: Chelsea Plante | Tuesday, April 6th, 2010In 2005, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) adopted a democratic constitution by referendum. Calling for decentralization, the implementation of checks and balances and the complete overhaul of the security sector, the constitution sought to radically change governance in the troubled central African country. In 2006, the Congolese chose their leader in elections hailed as
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