Welcome to the Asia Regional Pages
Welcome to the Asian regional site of the Centre for Security Sector Management's (CSSM).
The Asian web-page is a repository of information on events, organisations, academic publications, research papers, country analyses, case studies, official documents and news items relevant to security sector management issues in the region. The aim of this site is to provide a valuable resource on Asia by facilitating the flow of up to date and relevant information among the range of diverse actors in the security sector in the region.
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Higher education for young Afghans: An inexpensive way to rebuild the country | 3rd March
Over the past decade, the international community has invested billions of dollars and sacrificed hundreds of men and women in a fragmented effort to stem an increasingly downward tide that has been evident for years. To highlight that the current generation of young Afgh more>>>
UN - Security Council Extends Mission in Timor-Leste until 26 February 2011, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 1912 (2010) | 2nd March
Recognizing the important role of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) in promoting peace, stability and development in the nascent South-East Asian nation, the Security Council today extended the Mission’s mandate until 26 February 2011 at current le more>>>
Civil society interventions to improve policing | 8th February
EXPERIENCE shows that the police organisations of South Asia including Bangladesh have been more focused on using aggressive tactics to ensure law and order. This attitude and resultant tactics, though unfortunate, have stemmed from the colonial and feudal mindset and has pl more>>>
Advancing the Rights of Women and Girls: Keys to a Better Future for Afghanistan | 1st February
The advancement of women's rights is critical to political and economic progress everywhere around the world. This is especially true in Afghanistan, where women's human rights have been ignored, attacked and eroded over decades, especially under Taliban rule. As Secreta more>>>
Afghans Aim to Take Control of Security by 2015 | 1st February
Afghanistan’s military and police should take control of national security within five years, a conference on the future of the country agreed today. Ministers at the London meeting pledged to help expand the Afghan National Army to 171,600 by October 2011 and the Afghan more>>>
Karzai takes on the roadside bomb-makers | 26th January
On the eve of a London conference on his country, Afghanistan's President bans key ingredient used in insurgents' bombs... President Hamid Karzai has banned a key ingredient in the roadside bombs that have killed hundreds of British, American and Nato soldiers in his coun more>>>
Finland supports stabilisation and reconstruction of Afghanistan and training Somali security forces | 25th January
On 22 January, the President of the Republic and the Cabinet Committee on Foreign and Security Policy discussed Finland's contribution to the stabilisation and reconstruction process of Afghanistan. Finland will strengthen its support to Afghanistan using the means of develo more>>>
Deepening democracy by building gender equality | 21st Janaury
The conference on 'Women deepening democracy' held in New Delhi last week examined what can be done to tackle the gender-specific double standard encoded into the DNA of political liberalism. Women have been at the forefront of democratization struggles around the world, fro more>>>