Security sector reform

Security sector reform is an operational and at the same time normative concept to reform state security sectors. The term in German originally comes from the Engl. Designation Security Sector Reform .

The concept first emerged in Eastern Europe in the 1990s. The concept is based on the concept of human security . The aim of the internationally applied concept is a security sector that meets the needs of the population and the state and is subject to democratic principles. The concept is based on the insight that states and their security sectors can themselves become a security threat under certain conditions (e.g. in Sierra Leone ). In this case, the security sector hinders sustainable development, democratic development and peace and the state does not fulfill its security obligations. In Germany, the concept of security sector reform is used by the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), among others . The Federal Republic of Germany is also a member state of the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces ( Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces , DCAF).

Web links

• Security sector reform , German Society for Technical Cooperation
• Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces

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Monographs

• OECD-DAC Handbook on Security Sector Reform - Supporting Security and Justice (PDF; 1.5 MB), OECD-DAC.
• Fitz-Gerald, Ann (2003): Providing Security for the People: Security Sector Reform in Africa, GFN-SSR
• Schnabel, A. and Ehrhardt, H. (2006): Security Sector Reform and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. ISBN 92-808-1109-6
• Hänggi, H. and Bryden, A. (2004) Reform and Reconstruction of the Security Sector . ISBN 3-8258-7770-1