GFN-SSR Events

As well as the SSR Beginners/Practioners Course, GFN-SSR organises a number of other events throughout the year. These include debates and lectures on specific Security Sector Reform topics, and publication launches of the latest literature in the field.

Further information on these events and an analysis of their success can be found by clicking on the links below:

• Report on the Security Sector in Latin America
  and the Caribbean
  

  2nd July 2008
  Department for International Development, London

• Linking development and security – the case of Sierra Leone
  8th May 2008
  Department for International Development, London
  
• The Globalisation of Private Security in Africa
  9th January 2008
  Department for International Development, London

• Supporting State and Non-state Provision of Security and Justice

  14th December 2007
  Department for International Development, London

• The UK Launch of the OECD-DAC Handbook on SSR
  26th July 2007
  Church House, Westminster, London
• The Role of Civil Society in Security
  28th June 2007
  Royal United Services Institute, Whitehall, London

Other SSR events

• Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Nigerian security agencies before, during and after elections in Nigeria - The Way Out
  A memorandum submitted by the Police Community Partnership Forum to the Presidential Committee on Electoral Reform during its South Zonal Public Hearing
  2-4 June 2008
  Calabar Cross River State, Nigeria
• Quo Vadis: Indonesian SSR Ten Years On
  28-29 May 2008
  Jakarta, Indonesia
• Reforming Security Sector Governance in South Asia
  11-13 April 2008
  Bangkok, Thailand
• Commentary on: "Securing Peace and Development: the role of the United Nations in Supporting Security Sector Reform"
  Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations A/62/659-S/2008/39
  17-18 March 2008
  Tudor Hotel at the United Nations – New York
• When state policing is failing: security in the developing world
  9th July 2007
  International Workshop, Coventry University
• The challenges of developing a policy agenda for security sector reform and governance in West Africa
  5-6 June 2007
  Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC)
• International peace support operations: how can the capacity challenges be met?
  4-7 June 2007
  Wilton Park Conference WP844
• European Commission Development Days
  15-17 November 2006
  • State Rehabilitation
  • Improving Governance in Managing International Resources
  • Consolidation of Social Rights
  • The Role of the Media in Promoting Governance
  • Building a Culture of Democracy
  • Stepping up the Fight Against Corruption
  • Inequalities and Vulnerable Groups
  • The Voice of Non-State Actors
  • Migration and Governance
• Workshop on Participatory Research in the Solomon Islands
  April – May 2004
  • This report describes the proceedings and outcomes of a seven-day training workshop on participatory research in the Solomon Islands. The organisers of the workshop brought together more than twenty-three women and men from around the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea in order to strengthen their research capacity in relation to the promotion of security and conflict resolution. The workshop was held between April 27-May 3 and sponsored by the Women’s Development Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs and the United Nations International Fund for Women (UNIFEM).