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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

Programme Design, Implementation & Management

Libra Advisory Group has designed, implemented and managed security and justice sector reform programmes in some of the world’s most challenging countries. Our approach recognises the fundamental importance of local leadership in developing the strategic vision, and translating policy into plans and plans into outcomes.

We have a track record of working with all major donor governments. Our approach emphasises the integration of civilian, military, local, national and multi-national interventions under a single, locally-owned and -authored strategy.

We draw on our own experience and that of other practitioners to incorporate lessons learned and best practice, ensuring that knowledge is captured in order to support better programme design and implementation.

Project examples:

• Libra is responsible for the design and implementation of a programme to support security policy making in Sri Lanka, including the development of executive and parliamentary oversight and legislation.
• Libra managed the UK funded Malawi Safety, Security and Access to Justice Programme, designed to work across the justice sector, involving all relevant government ministries and institutions, as well as focussing on the role of non-state justice and policing systems.

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