Security Sector Reform in Challenging Environments (Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces

by Hans Born (Editor), Albrecht Schnabel (Editor)

More often than not Security Sector Reform (SSR) takes place against many odds, in barely enabling political, security, economic, and social environments. This volume offers evidence-based analyses of positive and negative SSR records in barely enabling environments, drawing on the experiences of specific national and international SSR programs and experiences in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 20, 2009

About the author

Hans Born is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), Geneva, Switzerland, where he heads the DCAF's research working groups on Parliamentary Accountability of the Security Sector and Legal Aspects of Security Sector Governance. He co-authored Security Sector Reform in Transitional Societies (2002), Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector: Principles, Mechanisms and Practices (2003) and The "Double Democratic Deficit": Parliamentary Accountability and the Use of Force under International Auspices (2004).