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Security Sector Reform
Description:
Security
Sector Reform (SSR) is a process of developing security-related
institutions that are civilian controlled, transparent, and accountable to
the public that they serve (Muggah, 2005), and
has been championed as a
critical element in conflict prevention, peace building, development, and
democratization (Bryden, 2004). Recognizing this,
development agencies such as
DFID and the UNDP are currently implementing SSR projects around the world.
The research area of SSR focuses on the policy and practice that define the
organizational behavior of military, police and judicial systems. Reform
implies a best-practices approach to enable the security sector, as a
whole, to support good governance, prevent crime, uphold justice, and avoid
the temptations of corruption and operating beyond accountability.
Basic Sources:
● Bryden, Alan and Heiner Hänggi (eds), “Reform
and Reconstruction of the Security Sector,” Lit Verlag, Münster. 2004.
● DFID, “Understanding
and Supporting Security Sector Reform,” 2002.
NEW! ● Fluri,
Phillipp H. and Moroslav
Hadzic (eds), Sourcebook
on Security Sector Reform. Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces,
Geneva. June, 2005.
● UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery,
“Security Sector Reform and Transitional Justice,”
March 2003.
● Vera Institute of Justice, “Measuring
Progress toward Safety and Justice: A Global Guide to the Design of
Performance Indicators across the Justice Sector,” 2003.
In Depth Research:
NEW! Avagyan,
Gagik and Duncan Hiscock.
“Security
sector reform in Armenia,” Saferworld,
May 2005.
NEW! Boanas,
Edward. “Crossing
the fault line—coordination security sector reform engagements in
post-conflict countries,” Journal of Security Sector Management, vol 3 no 3, June 2005.
Bonn International Center for Conversion, “BICC
Paper 25: Challenging the Warlord Culture – Security Sector Reform in
Post-Taliban Afghanistan.” Bonn International Center for Conversion, 2002.
Cilliers, Jakkie and Peggy
Mason, “Peace, Profit or Plunder? The Privatization of Security in
War-Torn African Societies,” Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, South Africa, 2001.
Control Arms, “Guns
and Policing: Standards to prevent misuse,” February 2004.
Farr, Vanessa A. “Voices
from the Margins: A response to ‘Security sector reform in developing
and transitional countries,’” Berghoff Research Center for Constructive Conflict
Management, 2004.
Green, Owen, “Security
Sector Reform, Conflict Prevention and Regional Perspectives,”
Journal of Security Sector Management, vol 1 no
1, 2003.
Groenwald, Hesta and
Gordon Peake. “Police
Reform through Community-Based Policing,” International Peace
Academy/Saferworld. New York. September 2004.
Muniz, Jacqueline, “Reform of the Military Police: The Military
Model and its Effects,” Center for Brazilian Studies, Oxford, May 2002.
Mathias, Graham, et al. “Philosophy
and principles of community-based policing,”
Community Policing Study-2003, SEESAC, Belgrade, 2003.
Peake, Gordon. “Policing
the Peace: Police reform in Kosovo, Southern Serbia, and Macedonia,”
Saferworld, January 2004.
SARPCCO, “Harare
Resolution on the SARPCCO Code of Conduct for Police Officials”,
(Mauritius: 6th Annual
General Meeting), 27-31 August 2001.
Sedra, Mark. Challenging
the Warlord Culture. Bonn: Bonn International Center for Conversion, 2002.
Sedra, Mark (ed.), “BICC
Brief 28: Confronting Afghanistan’s Security Dilemma –
Reforming the Security Sector.” Bonn International Center for Conversion, September
2003.
NEW! South Eastern European Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms
and Light Weapons (SEESAC), “SALW and Private Security
in South Eastern Europe: A Cause or Effect of Insecurity,” Belgrade: August 2005.
NEW! Stone, Christopher, Joel Miller, Monica Thornton, and Jennifer Trone. “Supporting
Security, Justice, and Development: Lessons for a New Era.” Vera
Institute of Justice, June 2005.
NEW! United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. “Why Fighting
Crime can Assist Development in Africa: Rule of Law and Protection of the
Most Vulnerable,” May 2005.
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