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Title Security Sector Reform in Challenging Environments
Author(s) Hans Born; Gordon Peake; Albrecht Scharbel;
Description More often than not Security Sector Reform (SSR) takes place against many odds, in barely enabling political, security, economic and social environments. Such difficult contexts may be characterised by widespread corruption, ongoing violence, imprecise, open-ended or non-inclusive peace agreements and post-conflict architectures, lack of resources, ‘stolen’ or impending elections or referenda – all circumstances that stand in the way of full-fledged, holistic and sustainable SSR efforts. Following an overview of ‘ideal’ SSR requirements, contrasted with typical obstacles inhibiting SSR efforts, the main body of this volume offers evidence-based analyses of positive and negative SSR records in barely enabling environments, drawing on the experiences of specific national and international SSR programmes and experiences in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. Lessons learned from these experiences are intended to feed into theoretical re-thinking of SSR policy frameworks as well as to help practitioners in designing and implementing effective and sustainable SSR in challenging environments. This book is the latest in DCAF's Yearbook series, which focuses on particular topics of current research and analytical work of DCAF experts and our broader circle of collaborators.

Contents

Part I: Introduction

Ch. 1 Ideal Requirements versus Real Environments in Security Sector Reform
Albrecht Schnabel

Part II: Learning from Challenging SSR Environments

Ch. 2 Security Sector Reform in the Central African Republic
Boubacar N’Diaye

Ch. 3 Limited Security Sector Reform in Colombia
Wolf Grabendorff

Ch. 4 Security Sector Reform in the DRC: Forward to the Past
Caty Clément

Ch. 5 Impatient Reformers and Reignited Conflicts: The Case of Georgia
Duncan Hiscock

Ch. 6 Morocco: Reforms in the Security Sector But No ‘SSR’
Hanspeter Mattes

Ch. 7 Security Sector Reform in Nepal: Challenges and Opportunities
Bishnu Raj Upreti and Peter Vanhoutte

Ch. 8 Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Security Sector Reform in Sri Lanka
Eleanor Pavey and Chris Smith

Ch. 9 A Lot of Talk But Not a Lot of Action: The Difficulty of Implementing SSR in Timor-Leste
Gordon Peake

Part III: Conclusion

Ch. 10 Security Sector Reform in Challenging Environments: Insights from Comparative Analysis
Hans Born

Year 2010
URL Link Link to Document
Accessed Date 28th January 2010
Place of Publication Geneva
Publisher DCAF
Keywords Post-Conflict; Security; Security Sector; Security Sector Governance; Security Sector Reform; Security Sector Transformation (SST); Security System Reform; Stabilisation;
Countries Central African Republic ; Colombia ; Congo Democratic Republic of (Zaire) ; Georgia ; Morocco ; Nepal ; Sri Lanka ;
Keywords Central Africa; Latin America; South America; African Great Lakes; Caspian Sea Region ; Caucasus Region; Black Sea Region; North Africa; Western Mediterranean; Central Asia; South Asia;