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This book examines the evolution, impact and future prospects of the Security Sector Reform (SSR) model in conflict-affected countries in the context of the wider debate over the liberal peace project. Since its emergence as a concept in the late 1990s, SSR has represented a paradigm shift in security assistance, from the realist, regime-centric, train-and-equip approach of the Cold War to a new liberal, holistic and people-centred model. The rapid rise of this model, however, belied its rather meagre impact on the ground. This book critically examines the concept and its record of achievement over the past two decades, putting it into the broader context of peace-building and state-building theory and practice. It focuses attention on the most common, celebrated and complex setting for SSR, conflict-affected environments, and comparatively examines the application and impacts of donor-supported SSR programming in a series of conflict-affected countries over the past two decades, including Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The broader aim of the book is to better understand how the contemporary SSR model has coalesced over the past two decades and become mainstreamed in international development and security policy and practice. This provides a solid foundation to investigate the reasons for the poor performance of the model and to assess its prospects for the future.

SECURITY SECTOR REFORM --- SECURITY SECTOR REFORM--AFGHANISTAN

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SECURITY SECTOR REFORM--AFRICA

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This book argues that security sector reform should be at the core of a new US policy to strengthen the security sector capacity of countries where US interests are at stake. Today's fragile environments feature a host of postconflict and postauthoritarian states and transitioning and new democracies that have at least one critical thing in common : their security sectors are dysfunctional. Why these states cannot fulfill their most basic function - the protection of the population and their government - varies widely, but the underlying reason is the same. The security sector does not function because security sector institutions and forces are absent, ineffective, predatory, or illegitimate. In place of large, boots-on-the-ground interventions relying on expensive train and equip programs with only fleeting impact, Washington needs a new approach for engaging in fragile environments and a policy for prioritizing where it engages and for what purpose. The volume offers case studies to exemplify the context in which a new US approach might be warranted, discusses other countries' experiences with security sector reform policies, and examines how the United States should design and implement a security sector reform policy.

SECURITY SECTOR REFORM--USA

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SECURITY SECTOR REFORM--AFRICA, WEST

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SECURITY SECTOR REFORM --- PEACE-BUILDING