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Latest News

Reframing Security Sector Reform for Counterinsurgency – Getting the Politics Right

Libra Principal, Dr Andrew Rathmell writes for NDC’s 14th Forum Paper ‘Complex Operations: NATO at War and on the Margins of War’, reframing SSR for Counterinsurgency.

Operationalising the Comprehensive Approach

In this Chatham House publication, Libra Principal Dr Andrew Rathmell, along with Professor Julian Lindley-French and Professor Paul Cornish, discuss how NATO can make a reality of its aspirations to apply a Comprehensive Approach to complex operations.

Security Sector Evolution: Understanding & Influencing How Security Sector Institutions Change

Peter Wilson & Volha Piotukh analyse improved design, implementation and review of SSR programmes. Borrowing theory from economic and strategic management, they consider the implications of these insights for a new “evolutionary” approach to SSR

External Links

Security Sector Reform Networks and Implementers

• Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform
  Birmingham University's Security Sector Reform Network
• Centre for Security Sector Management
  Cranfield University's Security Sector Reform Department
• Global Consortium for Security Transformation (GCST)
• Security Sector Development Advisory Team (SSDAT)
• Palestinian Academy for Security Sciences
• African Security Sector Network
• International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT)
• OECD/DAC: International Network on Conflict and Fragility

Think tanks, academic institutions and non-governmental organisations

• Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces
• Clingendael
  The Netherlands Institute of International Relations
• Saferworld
• GroundTruth Consulting Ltd.
• Demos
  "Networked Security" Programme
• Centre for Defence Studies, Department of War Studies
  King’s College London
• The Crisis States Research Centre
  London School of Economics
• Department of Peace Studies
  Bradford University
• International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
• Royal United Services Institutes (RUSI)
• United States Institute of Peace
• Center of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Governance and Social Development Resoruce Centre (GSDRC)
  University of Birmingham
• International Center for Transitional Justice
• International Crisis Group
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• RAND Cooperation

Stabilisation Resources

United Kingdom

• Stabilisation Unit
  Previously known as the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Unit (PCRU). Jointly owned by the Department for International Development (DFID), Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Ministry of Defence (MOD) 

USA

• State Department Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilisation (S/CRS)
• Joint Centre for International Security Force Assistance (US DoD, Fort Leavenworth)
• The U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)

Canada

• Stabilisation and Reconstruction Task Force (START)
  Department for Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Australia

• International Deployment Group, Australian Federal Police

Germany

• Centre for International Peace Operations (ZIF)

International Organisations

• Peacekeeping Best Practices
  Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), United Nations
• Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions
  Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), United Nations
• UN Peacemaker
  Policy Planning Unit, Department of Political Affairs (DPA), United Nations
• Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Recovery (BCPR)
  United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)