Security systems in Francophone Africa

Bagayoko, Niagalé

doi:10.1111/j.2040-0217.2010.00064_2.x

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“…According to the Constitutions, the President of the Republic, as Supreme Chief of the Armed Forces, is able to define the national defence policy, which is executed by the Minister of the Armed Forces, under the aegis of the Prime Minister. As in most Francophone African countries, these constitutional provisions have resulted in a situation where the security domain is, to a large extent, the exclusive monopoly of the President, assisted by a limited circle of civilian and military advisers (Bagayoko 2010). However, such exorbitant prerogatives were apparently not sufficient.…”

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Multi‐level Governance and Security: The Security Sector Reform Process in the Central African Republic

Bagayoko

2010

IDS Working Papers

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About IDSThe Institute of Development Studies is one of the world's leading charities for research, teaching and communications on international development. Founded in 1966, the Institute enjoys an international reputation based on the quality of its work and the rigour with which it applies academic skills to real world challenges. Its purpose is to understand and explain the world, and to try to change it -to influence as well as to inform.IDS hosts five dynamic research programmes, five popular postgraduate courses, and a family of world-class web-based knowledge services. These three spheres are integrated in a unique combination -as a development knowledge hub, IDS is connected into and is a convenor of networks throughout the world.The Institute is home to approximately 80 researchers, 50 knowledge services staff, 50 support staff and about 150 students at any one time. But the IDS community extends far beyond, encompassing an extensive network of partners, former staff and students across the development community worldwide. This publication is copyright, but may be reproduced by any method without fee for teaching or non-profit purposes, but not for resale. Formal permission is required for all such uses, but normally will be granted immediately. For copying in any other circumstances, or for re-use in other publications, or for translation or adaptation, prior written permission must be obtained from the publisher and a fee may be payable. SummaryThis paper analyses how the security sector reform (SSR) process in the Central African Republic has been defined and then implemented, putting emphasis on the interactions between national and international actors. Therefore, it advocates an approach which consists of expanding the agenda of the traditional multi-level governance approach and which seeks to seize both the top-down and the bottom-up dynamics of decision-making processes. The first objective is to capture the sets of actors and procedures which drive the reform process, and to map out the various levels of government at which decisions are made. Secondly -and more fundamentally -is to capture the intermingling of domestic and international decision-making processes which increasingly overlap and interfere with each other in Southern countries.

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Multi‐level Governance and Security: The Security Sector Reform Process in the Central African Republic

Bagayoko

2010

IDS Working Papers

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Unsupervised classification of dynamic obstacles in urban environments

Katz

Nieto

Nebot

2010

Journal of Field Robotics

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This paper presents a solution to the problem of unsupervised classification of dynamic obstacles in urban environments. A track-based model is introduced for the integration of two-dimensional laser and vision information that provides a robust spatiotemporal synthesis of the sensed moving obstacles and forms the basis for suitable algorithms to perform unsupervised classification by clustering. This work presents various contributions in order to achieve accurate and efficient performance, initially using laser tracks for classification and then incorporating visual tracks to the model. A procedure is proposed for accurate unsupervised classification of dynamic obstacles using a laser stamp representation of the tracks. Laser data are then integrated with visual information through a single-instance visual stamp representation, which is finally extended using a multipleinstance framework to robustly deal with challenges associated with perception in real-world scenarios. The proposed algorithms are extensively validated with a simulated environment. Experiments with a research vehicle in an urban environment demonstrate the performance of the approach with real data. The experimental results reach an accuracy of more than 92% for obstacle classification, finding the clusters that correspond to the main obstacle classes in the data. C

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