1st Edition

Building Security in Post-Conflict States The Domestic Consequences of Security Sector Reform

Edited By Ursula Schroeder, Fairlie Chappuis Copyright 2016
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. New Perspectives on Security Sector Reform: The Role of Local Agency and Domestic Politics  Ursula C. Schroeder and Fairlie Chappuis

2. From Weakness to Strength: The Political Roots of Security Sector Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina  Louis-Alexandre Berg

3. Security Sector or Security Arena? The Evidence from Somalia  Alice Hills

4. Reformed or Deformed? Patronage Politics, International Influence, and the Palestinian Authority Security Forces  Kimberly Marten

5. Resistance in the Time of Cholera: The Limits of Stabilization through Securitization in Haiti  Nicolas Lemay-Hébert 

6. Security Sector Reform and the Emergence of Hybrid Security Governance  Ursula C. Schroeder, Fairlie Chappuis and Deniz Kocak

7. The International Intervention and its Impact on Security Governance in North-East Afghanistan Jan Koehler and Kristóf Gosztonyi

8. Overcoming the State/Non-state Divide: An End User Approach to Security and Justice Reform  Lisa Denney

9. From Paternalism to Facilitation: SSR Shortcomings and the Potential of Social Anthropological Perspectives  Sabine Mannitz

Biography

Ursula C. Schroeder is Professor of International Security at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and directs the research project ‘The Politics of State- and Security Building in Areas of Limited Statehood’ at the Collaborative Research Center 700: Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood.

Fairlie Chappuis is a Programme Manager in the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces research division. Previously, she was a Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Center 700: Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood, at the Free University of Berlin, Germany.