United Kingdom-led Security Sector Reform in Sierra Leone

Horn, Adrian; Olonisakin, Funmi; Peake, Gordon

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“…Existing literature dealing with police capacity development focuses primarily upon the re-establishment of police organisations post-conflict (Neild 2001, Marenin 2005, the democratisation of foreign (usually developing country) police organisations (Bayley 2001), broad guidance for improving policing in developing country contexts (Clegg et al 2000) and case studies of specific external attempts to strengthen policing in developing countries (see, for example, Hood 2006, Horn et al 2006, Goldsmith and Dinnen 2007, McLeod 2007, McLeod and Dinnen 2007.…”

Section: Police Capacity Development: An Overviewmentioning

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Police capacity development in the Pacific: the challenge of local context

McLeod

2009

Policing and Society

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Police have long been involved in peacekeeping missions, but the provision of police capacity development assistance to developing country police forces is comparatively recent. Both country case studies and broader 'lessons learned' suggest that police capacity development initiatives must be adapted to local contexts. However, exactly what must be adapted and how that adaptation might occur remains ill-defined. This article explores these issues in the context of Papua New Guinea, highlighting the practical challenges involved in tailoring foreign police capacity development assistance to specific local contexts.

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Section: Police Capacity Development: An Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Police capacity development in the Pacific: the challenge of local context

McLeod

2009

Policing and Society

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“…In particular, the intervention in Sierra Leone was influential in shaping top level UK development policy through the influence of actors on the ground and trends first noted there ‘such as the privatisation and militarisation of emergency assistance’ were later seen in Iraq and Afghanistan (Schümer, 2008: 9). For example, the supply by the DfID of equipment to the Sierra Leonean police as part of the reform process came out of consultations in the country (Horn, Olonisakin, & Peake, : 115). From this perspective, DfID's engagement with security arose out of involvement in specific events rather than from an existing policy position.…”

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Security for All, Development for Some? The Incorporation of Security in Uk's Development Policy

McConnon

2014

J of Intl Development

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This paper builds on existing research on the merging of development and security following 9/11. Whilst much of the current literature focuses on the development policy of the US, this paper examines the UK. Investigating arguments that the UK's coordination of security and development policy is concerned with security at home rather than in the developing world, the policy discourse of the UK's Department for International Development (DfID), Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Ministry of Defence (MoD) is examined through its major policy documents for the period from the late 1990s to 2011. Two levels of analysis are used; a content analysis and a discourse analysis. In addition, this research draws on interviews with key informants within DfID. This paper argues that since 9/11 and the War on Terror, the UK has increasingly coordinated its foreign policy, development and security actors. As a result, DfID has given progressively greater attention to issues of national security in its policy discourse. This action is justified through a series of claims of common interest between actors across government and between the interests of developing countries and the UK. This merging of interests opens up space for development to be focused on ensuring UK national security. Whilst drawing on a paradigm of broader security, this instead reverses the principal of human security where national security is now a development problem.

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“…NATO and the European Union (EU) were among the first to apply SSR policies with their enlargement processes in the 1990s (DCAF 2006, DursunOzkanca andVandemoortele 2012). Among the bilateral donors, the UK has been one of the pioneers, with the support to Sierra Leone as one of their success stories (Horne et al 2006).…”

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Defense sector reform in the Western Balkans – different approaches and different tools

Busterud¹

2014

European Security

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This article analyses two different approaches to defense sector reform (DSR) in the Western Balkans. It explores the role of NATO in the reform process in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as well as Norway's involvement in Montenegro. Based on this, the article then compares and contrasts the two processes, and looks at the factors that have influenced their success or failure. The analysis show that both BiH and Montenegro have taken significant steps towards Euro-Atlantic integration, and that NATO and Norway have succeeded in part of their work to assist this effort. However, it also suggests that certain key factors for success in SSR have been less than optimal, such as donor coordination and the principle of local ownership. Both actors are also limited by the lack of a conceptual framework or guidelines for their work on DSR.

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United Kingdom-led Security Sector Reform in Sierra Leone

Cited by 24 publications

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Police capacity development in the Pacific: the challenge of local context

Police capacity development in the Pacific: the challenge of local context

Security for All, Development for Some? The Incorporation of Security in Uk's Development Policy

Defense sector reform in the Western Balkans – different approaches and different tools

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