CIAO DATE: 05/2009
March 2009
Center on International Cooperation
Across West Africa, the absence of effective, democratic governance of the security sector has been a significant casual factor of state fragility or civil war. Jake Sherman, Lead Researcher for CIC 's Security Sector Reform project, funded by the Royal Government of Norway, undertook a comparative study of legislative oversight of security sector reform (SSR) in West Africa during 2008.
Resource link: Strengthening Security Sector Governance in West Africa [PDF] - 176K