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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

Institutional Development

Building capacity of the institutions which coordinate, manage and fund security and justice providers is a vital (and sometimes overlooked) element of security and justice sector reform. Libra has significant experience in the development of Ministries and National Security coordinating structures to help them develop the strategy and systems on which security provision is based.

Libra builds sustained capacity through complementary interventions at every level – individual, organisational and institutional – ensuring viable and enduring capacity, working with both state and non-state actors.

Libra has proven expertise in the fields of;

• strategic planning, programming and budgeting
• human resource management
• public financial management
• procurement modernisation
• training capacity building
• Internal governance and accountability

Project examples:

• Designing a comprehensive capacity building programme for the Ministry of Security in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• Institutional development support to the Palestinian Authority Security Forces under the auspices of the United States Security Coordinator (USSC) - an American-led effort to professionalise the PASF in accordance with the Roadmap to a Two-State Solution.
• Management and implementation of an extensive programme of Institutional Development of the Ministry of Interior of Iraq, including building systems for coordinating and resourcing the delivery of security and justice across Iraq.
• Support to implementation and review of DFID’s support to the Office of National Security and the network of Provincial and District Security Committees in Sierra Leone.

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