Co-operation, Contestation and Complexity in Post-Conflict Security Sector Reform

Security-sector Transformation in Post-conflict Societies

Security Sector Reform

For 26 years, from 1960 until 1996 and the signing of the Accord for a “Firm and Lasting Peace”, Guatemala was the setting of one of the bloodiest of Latin America’s Cold War armed conflicts. During this period, a national security doctrine militarized the state. The last provision of the Peace Accord in Guatemala, the ‘Agreement on the Strengthening of Civilian Power and on the Role of the Arm...

Security Sector Reform in Zimbabwe

On the 15th of September 2008, a power-sharing agreement was brokered between the major political parties in Zimbabwe, namely, the Tsvangirai-led Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), the Mutambara-led Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-M) and the then ruling Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). This Global Political Agreement (GPA) paved the way for the establishment o...

Post-conflict land governance reform in the African Great Lakes region Part I – The challenges of post-conflict land reform

Post-conflict land governance reform in the African Great Lakes region Part I – The challenges of post-conflict land reform