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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

Policy Research & Analysis

Libra Advisory Group advises governments, donors and international organisations on security and justice sector planning and policy.  We have advised governments, including the UK and US, and international organisations, including the United Nations, on many themes, including;

• stabilisation planning and operations
• lessons learning and the application of best practice in security reform
• the ‘whole-of-government’ approach
• public sector policy development

Libra Directors have also contributed to the OECD-DAC Handbook on Security System Reform, including writing the Intelligence and Security chapter.

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