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Building Security in Post-Conflict States: The Domestic Consequences of Security Sector Reform

Cover: Building Security in Post-Conflict States

Cover: Building Security in Post-Conflict States

Ursula Schröder, Fairlie Chappuis – 2015

Support for security and justice institutions has become a crucial instrument of international engagement in fragile and conflict-affected states. In attempts to shore up security as a precondition for sustainable peace, international actors have become deeply engaged in reforming the security agencies and security governance institutions of states emerging from conflict. But despite their increasing importance in the field of international peace- and state-building, security sector reform (SSR) interventions remain both highly political and deeply contentious processes. Expanding on this theme, this edited volume identifies new directions in research on the domestic consequences of external support to security sector reform. Both empirically and theoretically, the focus lies on the so far neglected role of domestic actors, interests and political power constellations in recipient states. Based on a wide range of empirical cases, the volume discusses how the often conflictual and asymmetric encounters between external and domestic actors with divergent interests and perceptions affect the consequences of international interventions. By taking into account the plurality of state and non-state security actors and institutions beyond classical models of Weberian statehood, the contributions make the case for engaging more closely with the complexity of the domestic security governance configurations that can result from external engagement in the field of security sector reform.

Title
Building Security in Post-Conflict States: The Domestic Consequences of Security Sector Reform
Publisher
Routledge
Location
New York
Keywords
Research Project C6
Date
2015
Identifier
ISBN 978-1138908253
Language
eng
Type
Text

Content

1. New Perspectives on Security Sector Reform: The Role of Local Agency and Domestic Politics
Ursula C. Schroeder and Fairlie Chappuis

2. From Weakness to Strength: The Political Roots of Security Sector Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Louis-Alexandre Berg

3. Security Sector or Security Arena? The Evidence from Somalia Alice Hills

4. Reformed or Deformed? Patronage Politics, International Influence, and the Palestinian Authority Security Forces 
Kimberly Marten

5. Resistance in the Time of Cholera: The Limits of Stabilization through Securitization in Haiti
Nicolas Lemay-Hébert

6. Security Sector Reform and the Emergence of Hybrid Security Governance 
Ursula C. Schroeder, Fairlie Chappuis and Deniz Kocak

7. The International Intervention and its Impact on Security Governance in North-East Afghanistan 
Jan Koehler and Kristóf Gosztonyi

8. Overcoming the State/Non-state Divide: An End User Approach to Security and Justice Reform
Lisa Denney

9. From Paternalism to Facilitation: SSR Shortcomings and the Potential of Social Anthropological Perspectives 
Sabine Mannitz