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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

Oversight & Accountability:

Building security capacity without strengthening oversight and accountability can lead to the abuse of authority, including human rights violations, corruption and the misappropriation of public funds. Libra has expertise in building government oversight and accountability capacity in the security and justice sectors, including the design and establishment of internal and external accountability mechanisms.

Project examples:

• Supported the Iraqi Ministry of Interior in the development of an internal security forces (ISF) disciplinary system including training ISF judges in court administration and facilitating the design of curriculum for training ISF investigation board members.
• Libra designed and implemented a human rights training programme for Lebanese Internal Security Forces helping to improve Lebanese police accountability in terms of improving police behaviour and adherence to the rule of law.
• Libra designed and implemented a training programme for the Royal Thai Police ‘Capacity building for counter-terrorism and policing in conflict situations – policing in a multi-cultural society’.

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