Policy and Research Papers
United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations SSR Newsletter - October-December 2012
The SSR Newsletter provides an update on recent activities of the SSR Unit, gives an overview of upcoming initiatives and shares relevant information and announcements with the greater SSR community.
In this issue:
- Launch of UN SSR Integrated Technical Guidance Notes
- High-Level Meeting of the Group of Friends of SSR
- High-Level Forum on Defence Sector Reform
- Spotlight on a Mission: UNMIT
- Answering the Call for SSR Assistance to Mali
- Roundtable on SSR in Peacebuilding
- Addressing the Inter-Linkages between SSR and the Protection of Civilians
- The UN Security and Justice Sectors Fact Sheet
- Coming Soon...
- About the SSR Newsletter
UN Police, Justice and Corrections Programming in Guinea-Bissau - A Compact Case Study
Case studies on police, justice and corrections programming for nine UN complex operations and special political missions were developed by Stimson’s Future of Peace Operations Program at the request of the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions (OROLSI) of the UN’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations. They are descriptive rather than analytic documents that help to organize, by mission, the issues and activities that the main study, Understanding Impact of Police, Justice and Corrections in UN Peace Operations, treats functionally, across cases, and are summarized in the study’s annexes.
Civilian Peacekeeping Capacity: Mobilizing Partners to Match Supply and Demand
The timely deployment of suitably qualified civilian personnel is a challenge that none of the organizations that deploy peacekeepers has yet addressed. This challenge has floundered on the periphery of the peacekeeping debate for many years, but a 2010–11 UN civilian capacity review provides a unique opportunity to focus attention on the problem. This article proposes the formation of a global civilian capacity partnership that brings together the training and roster community, the UN Secretariat and a grouping of interested states, with the aim of significantly improving the UN Secretariat’s ability to identify, recruit and deploy suitably qualified civilian personnel in a reasonable time, and without adverse side effects for the local community or the mission mandate.
CIVCAP 2012: Laying Concrete Foundations
Even in the current context of financial constraints and challenging Member State dynamics at the UN, the next 12 months should be be seized as an important time for realizing pragmatic improvement in how the international community assists countries emerging from conflict. The Civilian Capacity (CIVCAP) initiative represents areal opportunity to drive concrete change on issues long recognized as deficient. CIVCAP is an important chance to depart from tired and often ineffective approaches to
providing technical support in fragile settings. There are practical steps policy-makers can take to support a strategic
shift in how peacebuilding and post-conflict assistance is provided.
Since March 2011, CIVCAP has remained a prominent agenda item at the United Nations. The key findings and main recommendations of the CIVCAP report were strongly supported by the UN Secretary-General and in May 2012 the CIVCAP process was officially recognized by the 193 Member States of the General Assembly. Since that time, the UN and partners have engaged in intensive policy consultations and have sought to identify solutions both in the field and for systemic challenges.
This policy brief presents developments in 2012 and it spotlights the CAPMATCH consultation with the Training and Rostering Community held in June 2012, which was supported by NUPI and co-hosted by the Permanent Missions of Indonesia and Canada to the United Nations. The coming General Assembly session will be important for maintaining momentum for the CIVCAP agenda.
This policy brief identifies three broad opportunities for policy makers to help deliver short-term results for CIVCAP and to set the stage for further reform:
- At the upcoming 67thGeneral Assembly session;
- In support of select field programmes; and
- In support of the CAPMATCH launch in mid-September 2012
Security Strategies Today : Trends and Perspectives
There have been considerable developments in security-policy thinking since the end of the Cold War, and a complex set of transnational threatsand challenges necessitates new security policies and strategies. Not only the attacks of 11 September 2001, but also the dark side of globalisation such as climate change, the global spread of dangerous technologies and international organised crime have changed the security perspective and policy procedures in recent years. Consequently, new
national-security strategies, white papers and security-policy documents have been drafted in order to take into account the changing security landscape.
On 6 April 2009, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) welcomed a group of leading security experts for a seminar entitled “Security Strategies Today : Trends and Perspectives”. The goal of the seminar was to provide a forum for experts from different European states, major international powers and regional and international organisations to take stock of current security polices in the European region and beyond. The participants had an opportunity to assess the direction of security-policy thinking by analysing a number of key security-policy documents such as national-security strategies, defence concepts and white papers, among others. Assumptions regarding future threats were considered, as were a variety of drafting processes and methodologies.
More than 30 participants attended the seminar, including representatives of the Defence Ministries of Finland, Germany and Sweden, as well as representatives of the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In addition to faculty members from the GCSP, regional and international experts from a range of academic and policy institutions participated, including speakers from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the International Affairs Institute (Rome), the Institute for International Strategic Studies (Beijing), the Royal Institute of International Relations (Brussels) and the Foundation for Strategic Studies (Paris).
Other Documents
Evaluation finale conjointe des programmes d’appui à la Justice en République Démocratique du Congo mis en oeuvre par le PNUD entre 2015 et 2020
Ce rapport détaille les résultats de l’évaluation du Portefeuille de Projets Justice mené par le PNUD entre 2015 et 2020. L’évaluation a été mandatée par le Bureau du PNUD en République Démocratique du Congo.
L’évaluation a été conduite par l’Equipe internationale de conseil au secteur de la sécurité (ISSAT) du DCAF. La collecte des données auprès des acteurs du Secteur de la Justice en République Démocratique du Congo (Sud-Kivu, Nord Kivu et Kasai Central) a été réalisée par Justin Sheria Nfundiko (Expert en évaluation- membre du Roster de ISSAT). Une collecte de données additionnelle, à distance, auprès des partenaires Techniques et Financier, des responsables d’ONG internationales et des acteurs du Système des Nations Unies a été réalisée par Jean-Philippe Kot (Conseiller Justice ISSAT/DCAF) et Julien Moriceau (Expert Justice et Gouvernance, Managing Partner de C-Lever.org, membre du Roster de ISSAT).
UNDPKO SSR Unit Newsletter No.24 | June 2015-January 2016
24th issue of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (UNDPKO) SSR Newsletter, covering the period from July 2015 to January 2016. The SSR Newsletter provides an update on recent activities of the SSR Unit, gives an overview of upcoming initiatives and shares relevant information and announcements with the greater SSR community.
In this issue:
- SSR-related developments in Central African Republic, Liberia and Mali
- UN-AU engagement on SSR: From capacity building to strengthened delivery
- Security Council briefing on the implementation of resolution 2151 (2014) on SSR
- High-level meeting on SSR and the Sustainable Development Goals
- SSR Unit briefing to the C-34
UNDPKO SSR Unit Newsletter No.23 | January-June 2015
The SSR Unit (SSRU), located within the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions (OROLSI), Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), is the focal point and technical resource capacity on SSR for the United Nations system, as well as for national and international partners.
The SSR Newsletter provides an update on recent activities undertaken and/or supported by the United Nations SSR Unit during the period from 1 January to 30 June 2015, gives an overview of upcoming initiatives and shares relevant information and announcements with the international SSR community.
In this issue:
- The cost of Somalia’s Security Sector
- CAR: Preparing for National Reconciliation and Reintegration
- Guinea-Bissau: Answering the Call for SSR Support
- Other SSRU Deployments to Field Missions in Cote D’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Mali
- High-level Meeting of the Group of Friends of SSR
- Meeting of Principals of the Inter-Agency SSR Task Force (IASSRTF)
- Workshop on Mapping Multilateral Approaches to SSR
- Annual Workshop for UN Inter-Agency Senior SSR Practitioners
- Annual Meeting of Heads of SSR Components in UN Peace Operations
- Coming Soon
UNDPKO SSR Newsletter, no. 18, April - June 2013
The SSR Newsletter provides an update on recent activities of the SSR Unit, gives an overview of upcoming initiatives and shares relevant information and announcements with the greater SSR community.
In this issue:
- Senior SSR Practitioners meet in New York
- Meeting of the SSR Chiefs and Advisers
- Spotlight on a Mission: Closure of UNPOS
- SSR Unit visits South Sudan
- Supporting Libya's SSR priorities
- Taking stock of SSR in Liberia
- Launch of the African Union SSR Program
- Meeting of Group of Friends of SSR
- Coming Soon...
- About the SSR Newsletter
UNDPKO SSR Newsletter no. 17, January - March 2013
The SSR Newsletter provides an update on recent activities of the UNDPKO's SSR Unit, gives an overview of upcoming initiatives and shares relevant information and announcements with the greater SSR community.
In this issue:
- Adoption of African Union Policy Framework on SSR
- Spotlight on a Mission: UNSMIL
- SSR Guidance Launched in Geneva
- Peacekeeping & Human Rights Conference
- Advanced Training on SSR in Sarajevo
- SSR Unit Support Visit to Côte d'Ivoire
- Induction Workshop for SSR Experts in Geneva
- Rule of Law Conference in Haiti
- About the SSR Newsletter