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    Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies

    The Bildner Center brings together scholars, policymakers, civil society leaders, and other stakeholders to further understanding and foster policy-oriented research concerning the governance, securit
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    Security sector reform in south-eastern and eastern Europe

    The Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform, 2009
    This topic guide introduces literature by academia, civil society organisations and governments about security sector reform (SSR) in the Balkans and the Southern Caucasus.
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    The DCDC global strategic trends programme: 2007-2036

    DCDC Strategic Trends, 2007
    The DCDC (Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre) Global Strategic Trends programme has produced this 'live' (i.e. continuously updated) analysis of the future strategic context for defence out to 30 years. The authors assert that it will be an essential input into policy development. Major outputs include:
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    Emerging Systemic Risks in the 21st Century: An Agenda for Action

    International Futures Programme, OECD, 2003
    This report is concerned with those risks that affect the systems on which society depends – health, transport, environment, telecommunications, etc. Five categories of such risks are addressed: natural
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    Reverse stakeholder mapping: on the need for actor-based SSR strategizing in post-conflict environments

    SSRonline, 2008
    The volatile characteristics of the security sector call for a strategic approach to its management. This article argues that the reverse use of stakeholder mapping provides donors with a useful tool to strategically manage their engagement in the security sector in post-conflict situations.
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    Policing in Afghanistan: still searching for a strategy

    International Crisis Group, 2008
    This paper is an assessment of the police reforms in Afghanistan and
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    The transition to a just order: establishing local ownership after conflict

    SSRonline, 2007
    A breakdown of the rule of law may be either the cause or a consequence of a conflict. While a conflict situation may be stabilised in the short-term, long-term security depends on the establishment of a functioning rule of law. This report focuses on how to consolidate the institutional and cultural foundations for the rule of law by transferring them to local ownership.
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    Public oversight of the security sector: a handbook for civil society organizations

    Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2008
    Governments tend to keep a tight reign on the security sector. Under pretexts of national security - especially in recourse to a ‘war on terror’ - the state’s security apparatus, and actions, are frequently closed to public scrutiny.
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    Securing the future: a primer on security sector reform in conflict countries

    United States Institute of Peace, 2009
    The objective of seucurity sector reform (SSR) is to institutionalize a professional security sector that is effective, legitimate, apolitical, and accountable to the citizens it is sworn to protect. SSR is a highly political process that must be accomplished in partnership with the country undergoing the reform.
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    Integrating gender in post-conflict security sector reform

    Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2008
    The UN made a firm commitment towards integrating gender issues into peace and conflict processes with Resolution 1325. However despite the 2000 document calling for a mainstreaming of gender issues through all aspects of 'peace and conflict' little progress has been made in a key post-conflict area - Security Sector Reform (SSR).

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