Welcome to the Middle East and North Africa Regional Pages
Welcome to the Centre for Security Sector Management’s (CSSM) regional site for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
The CSSM Middle East and North Africa web-page provides a repository of information which is regularly updated with new organisations, events, academic papers, official documents and news items relevant to regional security issues in a broad sense. This site aims to facilitate the flow of information between policy makers, practitioners and academics providing a valuable resource for the Middle East and North Africa region.
Contributions/queries can be sent to the CSSM team at theteam@ssronline.org
Conference on African Perspectives on Security Sector Reform Reaches Conclusion | 17th May
two-day meeting on the African perspectives on security sector reform ended in New York today with agreement that, if such processes were to be sustainable and viable, they must be built on the basis of national ownership, Adedeji Ebo, Chief of the Security Sector Reform Uni more>>>
The challenge of civil service reform in MENA | 1st February
Issues of civil service and administrative reform have been pursued by a large number of MENA countries for decades. As noted in the introduction, the field is a large one that covers how government is structured and organized; the size and composition of its staff and the more>>>
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Where could Justice go wrong? | 27th January
Department of Anthropology and Global Civil Society Programme public lecture Date: Wednesday 27 January 2010 Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: New Theatre, East Building Speaker: Dr Omar Nashabe Chair: Professor Christine Chinkin The lecture places the crime – the assassination more>>>
Biden Says U.S. Will Appeal Blackwater Case Dismissal | 25th January
BAGHDAD — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. promised Iraqi leaders on Saturday that the United States would appeal the dismissal of manslaughter charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security contractors involved in a deadly shooting here that has inflamed anti-American more>>>
Turkey: Civilian control of the military needs to be democratic | 4th January
With the military increasingly the target of investigations, debate intensifies over whether or not Turkey’s government is seeking institutional state power or genuine democratic civilian law. The ruling party is doing well to wrest autonomy from the military, but without ge more>>>
Press conference by Under-Secretaries-General for Peacekeeping, Field Support | 10th December
The top United Nations peacekeeping officials today reported significant progress in the ongoing discussions among Member States on a study of wide-ranging proposals to bolster the world body's peacekeeping capacity, in their quarterly press conference during which they also more>>>
France - Security Council: the situation in the Middle East | 30th July
Statement by Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations:.....
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US troops leave anxious Iraqi cities | 29th June
With US troops about to withdraw from Iraqi towns and cities, there has been an upsurge in bomb attacks - but is this a sign of worse to come, asks Jim Muir, or a last throw of the dice from the militants?
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