CIAO DATE: 11/2011

Journal of Security Sector Management

A publication of:

Centre for Security Sector Management

Volume: 8, Issue: 3

October 2011

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• Articles

  • The Co-Learning Approach to Capacity-Building and Training for Security Sector Reform Practitioners - Including a Toolkit of Ten Co-learning Applications (PDF)

    David M. Law

    Security Sector Reform (SSR) is a complex, technical and highly political subject that
    is generally addressed under difficult circumstances. Set in a unique environment -
    characterised by the convergence of donor interests and recipient requirements;
    post!conflict situations, transitional periods or developing countries; adult participants
    with clear case!specific knowledge and experiences to share; and the need to carry
    out concrete reform programmes - SSR capacity!building and training activities
    demand a distinctive approach. The co!learning approach described in this article
    addresses these challenges as educational opportunities that can lead to positive
    learning outcomes for participants and facilitators alike, at the same time as they can
    provide practical support for ongoing SSR processes.

  • Oil Resources, Militancy, and the Post-Amnesty Challenges in the Niger Delta, Nigeria (PDF)

    J. Tochukwu Omenma

    This paper argues that the exclusionary system of the indigenous people of the Niger Delta from the production and the distribution of oil resources is a factor that drives the militancy in the Niger Delta. The conceptual background to this argument is based on the analysis of the unmet demands of the Niger Delta people, which is cashed in on by the politicians and the youths to disrupt social order. The amnesty programme, as implemented by the government, is considered palliative if placed sidebyside with the critical demands of the oil communities. This paper identifies some technical problems of the postamnesty programme, which constitute a challenge to sustainable peace. However, the author concludes that the main sources of threat to the fragile peace in the region are the noninvolvement of the oil communities in the rehabilitation process; the revenue derivation percent; and the rebellious character of Henry Oka’s faction of MEND. To mitigate conflict in the long run depends on the capacity of President Jonathan Goodluck to mobilize material and human resources to improve on the lives of the Niger Delta people

  • Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Insecure Environments: Learning from Afghanistan (PDF)

    Mark Sedra, Major Gen (ret.) Andrew Mackay, Geoff Burt

    The uneven impact of security sector reform (SSR) in Afghanistan, despite nearly a decadelong commitment and billions of dollars invested, demonstrates the immense and perhaps insurmountable challenge of effectively implementing the process amidst an active conflict. 1 The SSR model was largely developed for postconflict and post authoritarian environments featuring favorable political conditions for reform. In Afghanistan, the SSR project and the Bonn political dispensation has faced progressively greater levels of violence with each passing year, reaching the level of a fullblown war covering large parts of the country by 2008