Security Sector Reform in Conflict-Affected Countries

The Evolution of a Model

Mark Sedra (University of Waterloo, Canada)

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English

Routledge
09 May 2018

Peace studies & conflict resolution; International relations; Defence strategy, planning & research

Series: Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Development

This book examines the evolution, impact, and future prospects of the Security Sector Reform (SSR) model in conflict-affected countries in the context of the wider debate over the liberal peace project.

Since its emergence as a concept in the late 1990s, SSR has represented a paradigm shift in security assistance, from the realist, regime-centric, train-and-equip approach of the Cold War to a new liberal, holistic and people-centred model. The rapid rise of this model, however, belied its rather meagre impact on the ground. This book critically examines the concept and its record of achievement over the past two decades, putting it into the broader context of peace-building and state-building theory and practice. It focuses attention on the most common, celebrated and complex setting for SSR, conflict-affected environments, and comparatively examines the application and impacts of donor-supported SSR programing in a series of conflict-affected countries over the past two decades, including Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The broader aim of the book is to better understand how the contemporary SSR model has coalesced over the past two decades and become mainstreamed in international development and security policy and practice. This provides a solid foundation to investigate the reasons for the poor performance of the model and to assess its prospects for the future.

This book will be of much interest to students of international security, peacebuilding, statebuilding, development studies and IR in general.

By: Mark Sedra (University of Waterloo Canada)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 650g
ISBN: 9781138603813
ISBN 10: 1138603813
Series: Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Development
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 09 May 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Sedra is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada. He is author/editor of five books.

Reviews for Security Sector Reform in Conflict-Affected Countries: The Evolution of a Model

'Mark Sedra’s book, Security Sector Reform in Conflict-Affected Countries: The Evolution of a Model, aims at demonstrating the recent dilemmas facing SSR, by presenting its core pillars and assessing the model in conflict-affected countries. The author provides an in-depth case study of Afghanistan demonstrating all its implementation phases, the actors involved, and, last but not least, the flaws and inconsistencies generated by the tensions between local and international actors.'--Ricardo Oliveira dos Santos, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2019