[Easttimorstudies] The Post-Conflict Security Sector (comparative
study)
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Geneva Centre for the Armed Forces (DCAF)
Policy Paper 14
The Post-Conflict Security Sector
David M. Law
Geneva, June 2006
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ............. 1
2. Characteristics of the Post-Conflict Security Sector.... 2
3. Comparing Post-Conflict Environments .................. 4
4. Comparing External Actors Security Sector (Re)construction Efforts.. 6
5. Assessing the Security Sector (Re)construction Programmes...12
6. Conclusions..15
Abstract
This essay draws on a recent study of how the
international community has dealt with the
need to construct or reconstruct the security
sector in six countries where there has been
severe conflict leading to significant
international engagement. Various factors are
identified as having been critical in shaping the
outcome of (re)construction efforts, and
they are evaluated from several perspectives. The
author observes that external actors
have tended to take a limited and unbalanced
approach to the security sector, focusing on
building the efficiency of statutory security
actors, and neglecting the development of
managerial and governance capacity. He concludes
that while programmes tended to
become more effective after the first major
post-Cold War effort was undertaken in Haiti
in 1994, the plight of the reconstruction effort
in Afghanistan after 2001 may point to a
reversal of this trend.
Keywords: security sector reform, post-conflict (re)construction, international
intervention; UN; disarmament, demobilisation and
reintegration; Afghanistan, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Haiti, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste
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