Security sector reform (SSR) is a holistic approach aimed at achieving effective, well-managed and accountable security and justice institutions. Efforts to improve capacities to facilitate SSR processes are resulting in the development of supporting organizational infrastructures, concepts and strategies.
SSR is an important field for many of the international institutions of which Norway is a member. Nupi's SSR work is divided into three main areas: basic research, applied research and operative activities.
Norwegian engagement with security sector reform (SSR)
This stocktaking and scoping study of Norwegian support to security sector reform aims to establish a clearer understanding of the capacities that exist among Norwegian actors, the types of initiatives and projects that have been supported, and their perceived impact and effectiveness. More
- Hansen, Vegard Valther, Trine Nikolaisen, Helge Lurås (2012). Etter beste evne . Oslo, NUPI-rapport . 19 pages. Security in Practice. Denne rapporten gir en kort oversikt over Forsvarets innsats innen Operational Mentoring and Liaison Teams (OMLT) i Afghanistan. Forsvarets arbeid har vært rettet inn mot Afghan National Army (ANA). Hensikten er å gi anbefalinger om fortsettelsen av dette arbeidet i Afghanistan, men også å skape et erfaringsgrunnlag for eventuelt liknende oppdrag i fremtiden.
- Ulriksen, Ståle (2012). Et nytt "great game"?, .Oslo,Universitetsforlaget.p. 263-271.I dette bokkapitlet forklarer Ulriksen hvorfor tilbaketrekningen av Nato-styrker fra Afghanistan kan virke som en katalysator for større regionalt samarbeid. [url]
- Nikolaisen, Trine , John Karlsrud (2011). Ti år i Afghanistan - hva nå?. Oslo, Utenriksdepartementet. 32 pages. Rapporten oppsummerer innholdet i Sikkerhetspolitisk konferanse 2011 som handlet om Afghanistan. Rapporten er strukturert rundt to hovedspørsmål: Hva har Norge og vesten oppnådd i Afghanistan, og hva har vi lært.
- Caparini , Marina , Kari Marie Kjellstad, Trine Nikolaisen (2011). A Stocktaking of Norwegian Engagement in Security Sector Reform . Oslo, NUPI. 89 pages. NUPI-rapport. The report examines scope and nature of Norwegian support to security sector reform programmes.
- Nikolaisen, Trine (2011). Security Sector Reform: A New Framework for Security Assistance?: The Security-Development Nexus’ Impact on Policies Towards the South. Oslo, Nupi. 128 pages. This master thesis investigates the security-development nexus' impact on donor policies towards fragile and post-conflict states in the South.
- de Coning, Cedric H., Karsten Friis
(2011). Coherence and Coordination. The Limits of the Comprehensive Approach,
Journal of International Peacekeeping, vol. 15
.Brill.p. 243-272.This article explores why international actors assign such high importance to coherence. It argues that the assumptions on which the principle of coherence is based are flawed, and that the empirical and theoretical evidence indicates that there is much less room for coherence than generally acknowledged in the policy debate. [Full-text version] [url] - Kjellstad, Kari Marie (2011). Training for Peace – is it possible?. NUPI Working Paper: 784. 23 pages. The report deals with some of the challenges the Training for Peace programme encounters in training police officers from African countries who are going to serve in peacekeeping missions.
- Caparini , Marina
(2010). Civil Society and the Future of Security Sector Reform,
in Mark Sedra, ed., The Future of Security Sector Reform
.Waterloo,Centre for International Governance Innovation.p. 244-262.This chapter by Marina Caparini offers a brief assessment of the engagement of security sector reform (SSR) with civil society. [url] - Caparini , Marina
(2010). State protection of the Czech Roma and the Canadian refugee system,
CEPS Paper in Liberty and Security in Europe, November 2010
.Brussels,Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).This paper examines state protection as applied to the Roma minority group in the Czech Republic and the link to Roma refugee claimants in Canada. [url] - Ulriksen, Ståle
(2010). Webs of War: Managing Regional Conflict Formations in West Africa and Central Africa,
in Harpviken, Kristian Berg [ed.], Troubled Regions and Failing States: The Clustering and Contagion of Armed Conflict, Comparative Social Research, Volume 27
.Bingley, Emerald.p. 355-380.This article argues that many armed, non-state groups in West Africa and Central Africa should be seen as regional actors, and thus that conventional two-level analysis does not catch the complexity of conflict in those regions. [url]