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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

Stabilisation and Conflict Prevention

Libra Advisory Group advises on policy, planning and implementation of stabilisation operations, and supports conflict prevention through the design and implementation of bespoke conflict-resolution programmes. Libra works closely with governments and international organisations to support stabilisation operations, drawing on a body of expertise that includes;

• public sector policy development
• project design and management
• design and delivery of capacity-building programmes
• inter-agency planning

Libra’s Directors and associates work in stabilisation and conflict prevention operations in conflict-affected and post-conflict environments including Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur, Kosovo, Nepal and East Timor; and Libra has worked for the UK Government (Department of International Development, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ministry of Defence and the inter-departmental Stabilisation Unit), the United States Government and the United Nations. Our breadth of experience - in military and non-military contexts – provides the expertise needed to create targeted programmes implementing them efficiently and effectively in both permissive and non-permissive environments. 

For a detailed description of the services we provide and for sample projects, click here.