Security Sector Reform in Conflict-Affected Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Security Sector Reform in Conflict-Affected Countries write by Mark Sedra. This book was released on 2016-11-03. Security Sector Reform in Conflict-Affected Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the evolution, impact, and future prospects of the Security Sector Reform (SSR) model in conflict-affected countries in the context of the wider debate over the liberal peace project. Since its emergence as a concept in the late 1990s, SSR has represented a paradigm shift in security assistance, from the realist, regime-centric, train-and-equip approach of the Cold War to a new liberal, holistic and people-centred model. The rapid rise of this model, however, belied its rather meagre impact on the ground. This book critically examines the concept and its record of achievement over the past two decades, putting it into the broader context of peace-building and state-building theory and practice. It focuses attention on the most common, celebrated and complex setting for SSR, conflict-affected environments, and comparatively examines the application and impacts of donor-supported SSR programing in a series of conflict-affected countries over the past two decades, including Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The broader aim of the book is to better understand how the contemporary SSR model has coalesced over the past two decades and become mainstreamed in international development and security policy and practice. This provides a solid foundation to investigate the reasons for the poor performance of the model and to assess its prospects for the future. This book will be of much interest to students of international security, peacebuilding, statebuilding, development studies and IR in general.
Prioritizing Security Sector Reform
Prioritizing Security Sector Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prioritizing Security Sector Reform write by Querine Hanlon. This book was released on 2016. Prioritizing Security Sector Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prioritizing Security Sector Reform: A New U.S. Approach argues that security sector reform should be at the core of a new U.S. policy to strengthen the security sector capacity of countries where U.S. interests are at stake. Today's fragile environments feature a host of postconflict and postauthoritarian states and transitioning and new democracies that have at least one critical thing in common: Their security sectors are dysfunctional. Why these states cannot fulfill their most basic function-the protection of the population and their government-varies widely, but the underlying reason is the same. The security sector does not function because security sector institutions and forces are absent, ineffective, predatory, or illegitimate. In place of large, boots-on-the-ground interventions relying on expensive train and equip programs with only fleeting impact, Washington needs a new approach for engaging in fragile environments and a policy for prioritizing where it engages and for what purpose. The volume offers case studies to exemplify the context in which a new U.S. approach might be warranted, discusses other countries' experiences with security sector reform policies and examines how the United States should design and implement a security sector reform policy. Book jacket.
Building Security in Post-Conflict States
Building Security in Post-Conflict States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building Security in Post-Conflict States write by Ursula Schroeder. This book was released on 2017-10-02. Building Security in Post-Conflict States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Support for security and justice institutions has become a crucial instrument of international engagement in fragile and conflict-affected states. In attempts to shore up security as a precondition for sustainable peace, international actors have become deeply engaged in reforming the security agencies and security governance institutions of states emerging from conflict. But despite their increasing importance in the field of international peace- and state-building, security sector reform (SSR) interventions remain both highly political and deeply contentious processes. Expanding on this theme, this edited volume identifies new directions in research on the domestic consequences of external support to security sector reform. Both empirically and theoretically, the focus lies on the so far neglected role of domestic actors, interests and political power constellations in recipient states. Based on a wide range of empirical cases, the volume discusses how the often conflictual and asymmetric encounters between external and domestic actors with divergent interests and perceptions affect the consequences of international interventions. By taking into account the plurality of state and non-state security actors and institutions beyond classical models of Weberian statehood, the contributions make the case for engaging more closely with the complexity of the domestic security governance configurations that can result from external engagement in the field of security sector reform. This book was published as a special issue of International Peacekeeping.
The United Nations and Security Sector Reform
The United Nations and Security Sector Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The United Nations and Security Sector Reform write by Adedeji Ebo. This book was released on 2019-12-16. The United Nations and Security Sector Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Multilateral organizations - the United Nations (UN) in particular - have played, and continue to play, an important role in shaping the security sector reform (SSR) agenda, both in terms of policy development and the provision of support to a wide range of national SSR processes. This volume presents a variety of perspectives on UN support to SSR, past and present, with attention to policy and operational practice. Drawing from the experience of UN practitioners combined with external experts on SSR, this volume offers an in-depth exploration of the UN approach to SSR from a global perspective.
Securing the Future
Securing the Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Securing the Future write by Sean McFate. This book was released on 2008. Securing the Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
