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The Seven Capital Sins of the Donor Community in Afghanistan
Authors:
No Named Author;
The objective of this brief is to help trigger a badly needed reassessment by the new U.S. administration of what has gone wrong in the way the aid effort has been conducted in Afghanistan. It does not focus on the specific U.S. aid more...
Keywords:
Development;
Development Intervention;
Donor Funding;
Donors;
Humanitarian Aid;
International Community;
Security;
Countries:
Afghanistan;
Regions:
Central Asia;
'Deepening ' and 'Widening': An Analysis of Security Definitions in the 1990s
Authors:
Sarah Tarry;
The end of the Cold War is often regarded as marking the beginning of a fundamentally different political environment both in a real and in a theoretical sense. This has been especially pronounced within Security Studies as pressure more...
Keywords:
Security;
Defence;
Defence Strategy;
International Community;
Regions:
Global;
2007: Rethinking unilateralism
Authors:
No Named Author;
As the process of globalization forges ahead, most security threats are beyond any single nation’s ability to solve unilaterally. International terrorism, the spread of contagious diseases, global warming and environmental degradation more...
Keywords:
International Community;
Multilateralism;
Security;
Regions:
Global;
7th International Security Forum (ISF)
Authors:
No Named Author;
This conference report provides a thematic overview of all the presentations given at the 7th International Security Forum (ISF), held from 26 to 28 October 2006 in Zurich, Switzerland. All keynote speeches are reproduced in their more...
Keywords:
Conflict;
Democracy;
Human Security;
Intelligence;
Private Security Companies;
Reconstruction;
Security;
state building;
Regions:
Global;
A Framework for Lasting DDR of Former Combatants in Crisis Situations
Authors:
No Named Author;
The report refers that the reintegration of ex-combatants, which is arguably the most component of the process commonly referred to as DDR, also has the most far-reaching impact on the prospects for a sustainable peace. The structure more...
Keywords:
Disarmament Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR);
Peacekeeping;
SALW;
Security;
A Framework for Strategy Development
Authors:
John G McGinn;
Gregory F Treverton;
Jeffrey A Isaacson;
M Elaine Bunn;
David Gompert;
This report contains the results of a study designed to assist the Department of Defense in its efforts to refine the defense strategy in light of recent experiences and to address expectations about future challenges to U.S. national more...
Keywords:
Security;
Defence Policy;
Strategy;
Defence Strategy;
Countries:
United States of America ;
Regions:
North America ;
A Holistic Approach to the War on Terror?
Authors:
Michael Aaronson;
Is a holistic approach, combining military operations, diplomatic negotiations as well as reconstruction and development, the right approach to the war on terrorism?
Sir Michael Aaronson argues that it is the War on Terror itself more...
Keywords:
Development;
Development Intervention;
Failed States;
Holistic;
Humanitarian Crisis;
International Community;
Security;
War on Terror;
Foreign Policy;
Countries:
Afghanistan;
Regions:
Central Asia;
A Long Road: Progress and Challenges in Guatemala's Intelligence Reform
Authors:
Iduvina Hernandez;
High levels of crime in Guatemala-including common crime, organized crime,
drug trafficking, and youth gang violence-have once again brought debates over intelligence and security issues to the front page. Controlling crime and violence more...
Keywords:
Democracy;
Human Rights;
Security;
Security Sector;
Security Sector Governance;
Security Sector Reform;
Democratic Control;
Democratic Security;
Countries:
Guatemala ;
Regions:
Latin America;
Central America;
A More Secure Continent
Authors:
No Named Author;
It is a report on the seminar, African Perspectives on the UN High-Level Panel report, A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, which was co-hosted by the CCR and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in Somerset West in April more...
Keywords:
Security;
Security Sector;
Security Sector Governance;
Security Sector Reform;
Regions:
Africa;
A more secure world: our shared responsibility: Report of the High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change
Authors:
No Named Author;
The Threats Panel proposes recommendations to improve the UN's response to security crises. The most controversial topics are: Security Council enlargement, a definition of terrorism and the issue of "responsibility to protect".
Keywords:
Threats;
Security;
Collective Security;
Conflict;
Reform;
United Nations;
Conflict Prevention;
Sanctions;
Transnational Crime;
Peacebuilding;
United Nations Security Council;
Regions:
Global;
A National Security Framework for Canada
Authors:
Ann M Fitz-Gerald;
W D Macnamara;
This paper addresses the lack of any framework for articulating Canada's national security strategy and its subsequent linkage to defence policy. It begins by clarifying key definitions and terms of reference whose understanding is more...
Keywords:
Security;
Strategy;
Defence Strategy;
Defence Planning;
Defence Policy;
Countries:
Canada ;
Regions:
North America ;
A Priority Agenda for the Next UN Secretary-General
Authors:
Thomas G. Weiss ;
Peter J Hoffman;
History has shown that the likelihood for substantial change at the United Nations
is greatest when a new Secretary-General takes office. To facilitate the construction
of a precise, credible, and meaningful agenda, a necessary more...
Keywords:
Development;
Human Rights;
Peace;
Security;
United Nations;
Regions:
Global;
A Review of Peace Operations: A case for change - Sierra Leone Report
Authors:
No Named Author;
The report provides a synthesis and assessment of peace operations carried out in Sierra Leone during the November 1996-January 2002 period. It takes the work of the UN and UNAMSIL as its focus, but also examines work done by ECOWAS more...
Keywords:
Justice;
Mission Planning and Design;
Humanitarian Aid;
Security;
Governance;
Political Transition;
Exit Strategy;
UN Peacekeeping;
UNAMSIL;
ECOWAS;
Countries:
Sierra Leone ;
Regions:
West Africa;
A Secure Europe in a Better World
Authors:
No Named Author;
As a union of 25 states with over 450 million people producing a quarter of the world’s Gross National Product (GNP), and with a wide range of instruments at its disposal, the European Union is inevitably a global player. In the more...
Keywords:
Development;
Security;
State Collapse;
Terrorism;
Regions:
Central Europe;
Eastern Europe;
European Union ;
South East Europe;
Western Europe;
Southeast Asia;
A Secure Future: Focus Group Report on Public Attitude regarding Defence and Security
Authors:
Julio Tomas Pinto;
This report is based upon analysis from Focus Group Discussion (FGD) research conducted in May - June 2002, but integrated with an analysis of the current defence and security situation in East Timor. The research findings were provided more...
Keywords:
Defence;
Security;
Conflict;
Democracy;
Countries:
East Timor;
Regions:
Southeast Asia;
Asia;
A Theoretical Conceptualization of Human Security
Authors:
Sagaren Naidoo;
This paper offers an appraisal of recent literature on threats to human security that do not derive from military confrontation. A major source of military conflict that provided focus for the Western world's perception of the threat more...
Keywords:
Human Security;
Security;
Post-Cold War;
Countries:
South Africa ;
Regions:
Southern Africa;
Africa;
Abstracts from the Workshop on Security Sector Governance in Africa
Authors:
Anicia Lala;
Security Sector Governance (SSG) in Africa was the theme of a workshop that took place from the 24-26 November, 2003, at Elmina, Ghana, under the auspices of Africa Dialogue and Security Research (ASDR), with the support of the Global more...
Keywords:
Security Sector Reform;
Governance;
Security;
Policing;
Civil-Military Relations;
Intelligence;
Regions:
Africa;
Accepting Realities in Iraq
Authors:
Gareth Stansfield;
The author, Gareth Stansfield, assesses the political, security and economic prospects for Iraq in 2007-08 arguing that there is not 'one' civil war, but several civil wars and insurgencies in present day Iraq. He argues that a new more...
Keywords:
Civil War;
Insurgency;
Political Reform;
Security;
Countries:
Iraq ;
Regions:
Middle East;
Afghanistan and regional instability: a risk assessment
Authors:
No Named Author;
This report examines Afghanistan's regional challenges. It finds that domestic instability in Pakistan, strains in Pakistan-Afghanistan relations and insecurities associated with the US-Iran stand-off on Iran's nuclear programme continue more...
Keywords:
Security;
Countries:
Afghanistan;
Regions:
Central Asia;
Afghanistan still the 'sick man' of Asia
Authors:
No Named Author;
Devastated by decades of conflict and hard hit by natural disasters, Afghanistan is now the poorest country in Asia. Millions remain dependent on aid, even as insecurity and lawlessness put vast swathes of the country out of reach more...
Keywords:
Aid;
Security;
Security Sector Reform;
Countries:
Afghanistan;
Regions:
Central Asia;
Afghanistan: From Insurgency to Stabilisation
Authors:
Peter Middlebrook;
Richard Kemp;
Patrick Merloe;
This report explores the complex inter-relationship between political, security and
socio-economic transitions - major facets of which remain incomplete -around which a set of coherent recommendations are made.
Keywords:
Economic Development;
Local Ownership;
National Security;
Stabilisation;
Justice;
Rule of Law;
Security;
Countries:
Afghanistan;
Regions:
Central Asia;
Afghanistan: From Presidential to Parliamentary Elections
Authors:
No Named Author;
Preparations for Afghanistan's April 2005 elections are falling behind, and the country cannot afford another postponement. The success of the October presidential poll will not be repeated in parliamentary, provincial and district more...
Keywords:
Elections;
Militia;
Security;
Transitional Societies;
Countries:
Afghanistan;
Regions:
Central Asia;
Afghanistan’s Rocky Road to Modernity: Non-State Actors and Socio-Political Entities in the Process of State- and Nation-Building
Authors:
No Named Author;
The international state-building effort underway in Afghanistan took off against the backdrop of American-led intervention launched in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Not long after the toppling of the Taliban regime, the United States more...
Keywords:
Good Governance;
Governance;
Peace;
Peace Support Operations;
Post-Conflict;
Reconstruction;
Security;
state building;
Countries:
Afghanistan;
Regions:
Central Asia;
Afghanistan’s Endangered Compact
Authors:
No Named Author;
While the growing insurgency is attracting increasing attention, long-term efforts to build the solid governmental institutions a stable Afghanistan requires are faltering. Following conclusion of the Bonn process, which created the more...
Keywords:
Economic Development;
Governance;
Reconstruction;
Rule of Law;
Security;
state building;
Countries:
Afghanistan;
Regions:
Central Asia;
Africa and the US Vote
Authors:
No Named Author;
Tim Hughes;
Kurt Shillinger;
This article focuses on the implications of the US elections for Africa. It draws on the positions of the two presidential candidates to analyse the possible outcomes of the future foreign policy of the US, with a special emphasis towards Africa.
Keywords:
Foreign Policy;
Elections;
Security;
HIV / AIDS;
Countries:
United States of America ;
Regions:
Africa;
North America ;