• Conflict and security
• Arms
  • Arms
  • Arms control
  • Arms trade
• Capacity building
  • Capacity building
  • Good governance
  • Security sector reform
• Complex emergencies
  • Complex emergencies
  • Climate change
  • Ethnicity
  • Healthcare
  • Natural resources
• Conflict and vulnerable groups
  • Conflict and vulnerable groups
  • Children youth and conflict
  • Gender conflict and emergencies
  • Injury and violence
• Peacebuilding
  • Peacebuilding
  • Approaches to conflict prevention
  • Conflict resolution and reconciliation
  • Peace education
  • Post conflict reconstruction
• Refugees and idps
  • Refugees and idps
  • Migration
• Rights-based approaches
• Security
  • Security
  • Global security
  • New wars
  • Non-state actors
  • Security concepts
  • Security and development policy
  • Security sector reform
  • Terrorism
• Stakeholders in conflict
  • Stakeholders in conflict
  • Business
  • Religious perspectives
• Also in this guide
• Conflict country profiles
• Conflict and security blog
• Key issues
  • Key issues
  • Security and development policy
  • Education in fragile states
• Websites
  • Websites
  • Conflict and arms control
  • Conflict and environment
  • Conflict and ethnicity
  • Conflict and gender
  • Conflict and humanitarian aid
  • Conflict and peace keeping
  • Conflict and population movement
  • Conflict prevention
  • Conflict websites
• Meet the editor
• In other guides
• Children youth and conflict
• Gender conflict and emergencies
• Governance & crisis states
• Health injury and violence
• Livelihoods, conflict and disasters

Conflict and security

Applied policy research organisation that seeks to inform and enhance the security debate in Sub-Saharan Africa. Activities include:

• independent applied research and analysis
• collecting, interpreting and disseminating information inlcluding
• national, regional and international networking
• capacity building

Major research themes are:

• arms management
• African security analysis
• peace missions
• crime and justice
• organised crime and corruption
• security sector transformation

ISS publications include the quarterly journal African Security Review and the newsletters: ACT; Action on Small Arms in Southern Africa and Small Arms Proliferation and Africa.

WWW site includes: details of projects; positions available; details of partner organisations; related links to other sites and details of ISS publications, some of which, including the newsletters, are available online.