AIM
This chapter summarises some of the major challenges facing African governments,
African civil society and external actors in transforming the continent's
security sectors discussed throughout this handbook with a view to clarifying
the context in which security-sector transformation takes place:
- The challenge of transforming the security sector in a country without
a tradition of democratic norms and practice.
- The challenge of understanding the political context of transformation.
- The challenge of moving beyond the defence sector.
- The challenge of a highly limited knowledge base.
- The challenge of finding acceptable limits to state secrecy while respecting
the need for confidentiality in certain areas.
- The challenge of finding the appropriate balance between democratic accountability
and control on the one hand and security body professionalism and discipline
on the other hand.
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