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Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!     Centre for

In many developing countries women continue to be marginalized and discriminated, which has propelled the issue of women empowerment into a key component of development policy interventions. A new ODI report titled Women and power: Mediating community justice in rural Bangladesh focuses on rural Bangladesh, where women have historically been excluded from participating, yet alone

Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!   SSR Resource Centre

Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!   Centre for Security

The Centre for Security Governance (CSG) is pleased to announce a new series of reports as part of its ‘Non-State Security Providers and Political Formation in Conflict-Affected States’ project, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Four CSG Papers will present the findings of three case studies—Afghanistan, Somalia and South Sudan— alongside a synthesis report providing a

The SSR Resource Centre is pleased to present a new series on disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and security sector reform (SSR) in Myanmar that is led by Dean Piedmont of the Peacebuilding, Reintegration & Stabilization Group (PRSG) in collaboration with the Centre for Security Governance.   This blog series features analysis on the state of DDR and SSR

Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!   SSR Resource Centre

The Centre for Security Governance has just published its latest CSG Paper, “Non-State Security Providers and Political Formation in South Sudan: The Case of Western Equatoria’s Arrow Boys” written by Mareike Schomerus and Anouk S. Rigterink. This is the second of four papers produced as part of the CSG’s project on Non-State Security Providers and Political Formation

Helena Gronberg in her recent blog contribution article – Is the time ripe for DDR in Myanmar? - rightly points to a classic DDR dilemma being faced in Myanmar.  This is focused largely on the sequencing of DDR efforts, pointedly D-D-then-R. In what is called classic or 1st Generation DDR lasting from around the late 1980s until the early

Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!   SSR Resource Centre

The Security Sector Reform Resource Centre is looking for talented academics, practitioners, analysts, and researchers to contribute to the SSR Resource Centre’s dynamic blog. Entries should focus on security sector reform and security governance in fragile, failed and conflict-affected countries, including related issues such as disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR), transitional justice, etc. This is a great opportunity

Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!   SSR Resource Centre

In late 2015 a nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) was signed between the government of Myanmar and eight of the 15 rebel groups active in the country. Although seven armed groups (including the largest insurgent forces) refused to sign the NCA, the ceasefire was a welcomed step in the current peace process. The process was launched

The Overseas Development Insitute (ODI) hosted a series of seminars to discuss key conceptual and practical issues related to security and justice programming. The series was held in 2014 and 2015 and hosted international experts on several security related issues. The events promoted debates and knowledge sharing that aim to increase the practice and the

Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week! SSR Resource Centre Innovative

Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!   Centre for Security

The Centre for Security Governance has just published its latest CSG Paper, “Non-State Security Providers and Political Formation in Afghanistan” written by Deedee Derksen.This is the first of four papers produced as part of the CSG’s project on Non-State Security Providers and Political Formation in Conflict-Affected States. The project was made possible by generous financial support

Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!   SSR Resource Centre

Want to keep up to date on the SSR field? Once a week, the CSG’s Security Sector Reform Resource Centre project posts pertinent news articles, reports, projects, and event updates on SSR over the past week. Click here to sign-up and have the SSR Weekly News Roundup delivered straight to your inbox every week!   SSR Resource Centre

The Centre for Security Governance (CSG), Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), and Wilfrid Laurier University Global Studies department (WLU) are hosting a series of eight online seminars focusing on the theme of “Contemporary Debates on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding.” Our fourth event will be held on Friday February 26 from 12:00PM to 1:30PM EST and will