Adapting Security Sector Reform to Ground-Level Realities: The Transition to a Second-Generation Model. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sedra, Mark
• Is Part Of: Journal of intervention and statebuilding. Volume 12:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 48
• Page End: 63
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: Peacebuilding -- statebuilding -- security sector reform -- fragile states; Intervention (International law) -- Periodicals; Nation-building -- Periodicals; Economic assistance -- Periodicals; Postwar reconstruction -- Periodicals; International cooperation -- Periodicals; 320
• DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2018.1426383
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1750-2977

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The security sector reform (SSR) model has entered a period of uncertainty and change. Despite being mainstreamed in international development and security policy, SSR has had a meagre record of achievement. SSR analysts, practitioners and policymakers are increasingly speaking of the need to move to a second-generation SSR model. There is a growing belief that SSR in its current form is too utopian, technocratic, state-centric, and donor-driven to succeed. While there is no universally accepted blueprint for second-generation SSR, a number of characteristics have emerged that have begun to define the contours of this alternative vision: less overtly liberal; willing to engage non-state actors, norms and structures; more modest in is objectives and time frames; attuned to the political nature of the process; and bottom-up in its orientation.