CIAO DATE: 05/2008
May 2003
Austrian National Defence Academy
PREFACE
True to its mandate, the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of
Armed Forces (DCAF) focused its initial activities immediately after
its creation on South Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
In its short existence, DCAF has supported and initiated over a hundred
seminars, publications and international cooperation projects. After
being heavily engaged in strategically advising then President of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Kostunica on security sector reform
during the transition period after Milosevic’s fall, DCAF offered to
set up an International Security Advisory Board (ISAB) for South East
Europe (SEE), actively supports both the Demobilization and Retraining
effort in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Border Management Reform in
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Serbia &
Montenegro. With studies such as this one, DCAF substantively supports
the Stability Pact for South East Europe and the SEEGROUP.
In the field of Parliamentary Oversight and Reform of the Security
Sector, DCAF will make the Handbook on Parliamentary Oversight (jointly
edited with the Inter-Parliamentary Union and published 2003) available
in Albanian, Macedonian and Serbian. This handbook, together with other
materials of foundational character prepared by DCAF, will be used in
DCAF-organised seminars for parliamentarians and committee staffers.
This present study is the result of the close cooperation between DCAF
and the Partnership for Peace Consortium Working Group on Security
Sector Reform. The research programme was conceptually prepared by
experts from the region within the Partnership for Peace Consortium
Working Group on Security Sector Reform. The Working Group meetings
were repeatedly made available for discussion of the progress made. The
present book aptly reflects the excellent possibilities and
opportunities the Consortium provides for comparative and crosscountry
studies. The Consortium provides for just this kind of meeting of
like-minded experts and comprehensive area studies. It is unique in
this respect, and deserves our attention and support.
Philipp Fluri, Ph.D.
DCAF Deputy Director
Resource link: Security Sector Expert Formation - Achievements and Needs in South East Europe [PDF] - 1.3M