Corruption poses a major threat to the effective functioning of a country’s justice sector, hindering its ability to uphold the rule of law thereby weakening the state. The case-study report “Crutch to Catalyst: The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala” published by the International Crisis Group takes a closer look at the International Commission Against 
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Publication Summary: Fighting corruption: The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala
By: Tereza Steinhublova | Monday, March 21st, 2016The development of the National Police, public security and the rule of law in Haiti
By: Stephen Baranyi | Thursday, May 28th, 2015Centre for Security Governance (CSG) Senior Fellow Stephen Baranyi has co-authored a new report, with Yves Sainsiné, on the development of the National Police, public security and the rule of law in Haiti. The full report is available in French here. The English Executive Summary has also been published here on the SSR Resource Centre
Could New Laws to Fight Terrorism Actually Help Fuel It?
By: David Cortright | Wednesday, April 8th, 2015Last week in Australia, 230 suspected jihadists were prevented from flying to the Middle East, highlighting a trend among governments (Canada and France are others) to implement tough new counterterrorism laws. While these laws have a purported purpose of improving national security, there is a risk that punitive measures that widen police and intelligence powers will have
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
Note - Measuring Security Progress: Politics, Challenges and Solutions
By: SSR Resource Centre | Friday, November 14th, 2014The Secretariat of the Knowledge Platform Security and Rule of Law, run jointly by the Hague Institute for Global Justice and the Conflict Research Unit at Clingendael, is organizing an Expert Meeting on Thursday, November 20 to examine the issue of measuring security in the context of fragile states, in cooperation with The Netherlands Permanent
Hybrid Models of Governance in Afghanistan
By: Vanessa Humphries | Friday, March 15th, 2013Security Governance Group Senior Associate Humayun Hamidzada co-authored a recent paper in the Journal of Peacebuilding & Development with Ali Wardak. The brief, The Search for Legitimate Rule, Justice and a Durable Peace: Hybrid Models of Governance in Afghanistan, highlights achievements and failures over the past decade on Afghanistan’s search for legitimate rule, justice and
“Rule of Law and Security Sector Reform – A pragmatic approach to addressing the security and justice spectrum”
By: Michael Lawrence | Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012The Clingendael Conflict Research unit has just released a new policy brief on better integrating security security reform with rule of law programming. As summarized by the authors: Policymakers and practitioners working on Rule of Law (RoL) Reform and Security Sector Reform (SSR) have a tendency to demarcate strict areas of competence between the two
A Complex Systems Approach to the Drug War in Mexico: Resources, Violence and Order
By: Geoff Burt | Friday, January 20th, 2012CIGI Researcher Michael Lawrence has published a paper at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Complexity and Innovation entitled “A Complex Systems Approach to the Drug War in Mexico: Resources, Violence and Order.” While other accounts stress the chaotic turmoil of the conflict, this approach begins by examining the relationship between the violence and the
Follow Up: Security Council debates Rule of Law
By: Jessica Teeple | Wednesday, July 21st, 2010The United Nations Security Council met on June 29, 2010, to debate the promotion and strengthening of the rule of law. From 11am until just after 5:30pm the fifteen member countries of the Security Council, along with nineteen other country representatives that requested to participate in the debate, discussed the forward progression of the rule
UN Security Council meets to debate rule of law, maintenance of international peace and security
By: Jessica Teeple | Wednesday, July 7th, 2010The Security Council met for an open debate on June 29, 2010, discussing “the Promotion and Strengthening of the Rule of Law in the Maintenance of International Peace and Security.” It was the first time since 2006 that the UN Security Council has debated this issue. According to a report issued prior to the open debate,
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