CIAO DATE: 01/2010
April 2009
Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform
Security and justice potentially have many different dimensions which affect human welfare, but for the purpose of this review we define security and justice in terms of access to a minimum level of private and public safety and law and order. From this standpoint, insecurity and injustice stem from problems such as crime, violence and weak or dysfunctional criminal justice systems that contribute to the breakdown of law and order and public safety. The paper is broken down into three sections which address each of these sets of issues. By way of conclusion, the paper identifies a number of key gaps in the knowledge base on security and justice issues and briefly discusses some of the implications of the current state of knowledge in this area for donor assistance programming. This review did not cover the literature on security and justice programming, which is the subject of another review being conducted concurrently.
Resource link: Literature Review : What is the case for a security and justice focus in development assistance programming? [PDF] - 141K