To arrest insecurity: time for a revised security sector reform agenda

Scheye, Eric; Peake, Gordon

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“…Schnabel & Ehrhart (2005: 6) treat comprehensive SSR as almost a necessary condition: ‘[e]ffective peacebuilding requires a thorough reform of a society’s security sector’. Others are more skeptical about the concept (Scheye & Peake, 2005: 296). Despite what has been written on the topic, the implementation of only one security-related provision (military power-sharing) has been the subject of a quantitative analysis (Hoddie & Hartzell, 2003; Jarstad & Nilson, 2008).…”

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Annualized implementation data on comprehensive intrastate peace accords, 1989–2012

Joshi

Quinn

Regan

2015

Journal of Peace Research

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This article introduces the Peace Accords Matrix Implementation Dataset (PAM_ID). We present time-series data on the implementation of 51 provisions in 34 comprehensive peace agreements negotiated in civil wars since 1989. We follow the implementation process for up to ten years following the signing of each agreement. The data provide new insights into the types of provisions that are more or less likely to be implemented, how implementation processes unfold over time, how implementation processes relate to one another, and how implementation affects various post-accord outcomes. We outline our coding methodology and case selection, and examine descriptive statistics. We illustrate one potential use of the data by combining eight different provisions into a composite indicator of security sector reform (SSR). A survival analysis finds that implementing security sector reforms contributes to long-term conflict reduction not only between the parties to the accord but also between the government and other non-signatory groups in the same conflict.

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Annualized implementation data on comprehensive intrastate peace accords, 1989–2012

Joshi

Quinn

Regan

2015

Journal of Peace Research

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“…Increasing the diversity of officer appointments and expanding civilian oversight may reduce the likelihood that civil war restarts, but such changes are far from simple to achieve. International actors have tried and failed to restructure security forces, sometimes leading to perverse effects (Jackson 2011; Scheye and Peake 2005; Schroeder, Chappuis, and Kocak 2014). Further research on how civil–military relations evolve in response to postwar politics, and when external security assistance influences institutional outcomes, could clarify a means through which international actors might contribute to preventing renewed civil war.…”

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Civil–Military Relations and Civil War Recurrence: Security Forces in Postwar Politics

Berg

2020

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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Does restructuring security forces reduce the risk of civil war recurrence? Prior research has examined effects of military integration in alleviating commitment problems, but the evidence has been inconclusive. Other aspects of civil–military relations have received less attention. This article examines the effects of civil–military relations in the context of postwar struggles to consolidate authority. It outlines three pathways through which security forces contribute to renewed civil war: by excluding rival factions and facilitating insurgent mobilization, by exploiting control over resources to challenge the regime, or by escalating incipient insurgency through repression. Analysis of original, cross-national data on postwar civil–military relations shows that reducing the potential for exclusion and exploitation through diverse officer appointments and robust civilian oversight lowers the risk of civil war. These findings emphasize the distributive effects of restructuring security forces and highlight the value of examining political contests around state institutions to understand why civil wars restart.

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“…Numerous other scholars have followed her lead in criticising the conceptual-contextual divide in SSR research (see e.g. Brzoska, 2003;Hänggi, 2004;Scheye & Peake, 2005;Sedra, 2007;Jackson, 2011).…”

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“…Control over the security sector is often contested among different domestic groups and the provision of security does often exceed the capabilities of formal state actors (Schroeder & Chappuis, 2014: 138). Scheye and Peake (2005), Baker (2010) and Denney (2014) argue that in certain societies, family, kinship and tribal ties must be included for successfully analysing and approaching the overall security sector. In the case of Sierra Leone, Denney (2014: 258) shows that only a small part of the country's security sector has benefited from donorsupported SSR due to its state-centric conceptual horizon.…”

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Security Sector Reform - Limitations and Prospects of the Scholarly Debate

Wingens

2016

EIRJ

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This article seeks to critically assess the current scholarly debate on security sector reform (SSR) by examining conceptual gaps and limitations of the research on SSR. It is argued that the academic debate on SSR is stuck within the existing policy approach and limited due to its focus on domestic state actors and institutions. The vast majority of studies do not go beyond questions of programme effectiveness and policy success. Current research on the topic struggles with various conceptual challenges that hinder the translation of the SSR agenda into actual operational realities. Nevertheless, recent contributions to this field of research turn away from limited perspectives on external interests towards a greater emphasis on local perspectives and dynamics.

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To arrest insecurity: time for a revised security sector reform agenda

Cited by 15 publications

References 20 publications

Annualized implementation data on comprehensive intrastate peace accords, 1989–2012

Annualized implementation data on comprehensive intrastate peace accords, 1989–2012

Civil–Military Relations and Civil War Recurrence: Security Forces in Postwar Politics

Security Sector Reform - Limitations and Prospects of the Scholarly Debate

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