Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) - Workshop on “Changing Nature of Conflicts”, Casablanca (Morocco).
The Kingdom of the Netherlands supports the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) and the US Special Operations Command Africa (SOCAFRICA) in the planning and execution of a Workshop on Changing Nature of Conflicts in Casablanca.
The 3-day seminar (17-20 June) will focus on changing threats in the region and more specifically on how best to organize and professionalize the various security elements to best meet those threat and the realities of shrinking security/donor budgets.
Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) - Workshop on “Changing Nature of Conflicts”, Casablanca (Morocco).
The Kingdom of the Netherlands supports the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) and the US Special Operations Command Africa (SOCAFRICA) in the planning and execution of a Workshop on Changing Nature of Conflicts in Casablanca.
The 3-day seminar (17-20 June) will focus on changing threats in the region and more specifically on how best to organize and professionalize the various security elements to best meet those threat and the realities of shrinking security/donor budgets.
JSSR as a way to strengthen citizen security: Training for IDB
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) was the first multilateral institution to support citizen security loans in Latin American and the Caribbean and to promote a violence prevention approach as part of the governments’ agendas.To complement the existing loan mechanisms, the IDB created in 2012 the Citizen Security Initiative (CSI) - funded by the ordinary capital of the Bank. The CSI is an essential tool, complementary to the technical and financial support the Bank offers to its members, to improve the development, management and evaluation of public policies in the citizen security sector. Citizen security is currently a priority or dialogue area in the strategies of 14 of the 26 IDB beneficiary countries. At least other 3 countries had citizen security in previous country strategies and there are loan operations in 17 countries. The reach of technical cooperation is even broader: there are 42 projects in implementation and/or pipeline funded by the CSI.
Justice and Security Sector Reform (JSSR) has now become a central component of efforts to overcome the cycle of conflict and the causes of fragility, from Honduras to Haiti. To be sustainable, JSSR must be based on the principles of accountability, transparency, equality, civilian protection, human security, democratic oversight and respect for human rights. This means that SSR involves long-term investments that lead to social cohesion, peaceful and inclusive societies and sustainable development.
Against this backdrop, the IDB plans to organize a two-three day workshop in Washington DC on justice and security sector reform (JSSR). This workshop, supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), would be delivered by DCAF/ISSAT.
The aim of this workshop is to update IDB in analysing evolving conflicts in countries that are affected by violence and to better understand the instruments available in context analysis. It will bring together 25 participants from the IDB, SDC and partner countries.