Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR)

A Beginner's Guide to Security Sector Reform (SSR)

SSR Beginners Guide

The Department for International Development (DFID) is reorganising its Security and Justice material with a view to presenting it on one website in the future.


For justice, conflict and fragile states resources visit the

Governance and Social Development Resource Centre

Security Sector Reform Publications


As well as summarising and linking to other organisations' publications in the Document Library, GFN-SSR also publishes our own documents, and distributes and hosts electronic and hardcopies of documents for other organisations.

  • GFN-SSR Publications contains documents either written and published by GFN-SSR, or edited and published by GFN-SSR.

  • GFN-SSR ssrbulletin is an electronic newsletter designed to keep people up-to-date with SSR activities around the world. This service has now been discontinued, but all previous editions are archived.

  • Other Key SSR Publications provides links to key SSR literature published by other organisations.

Our publications are avilable in pdf format.
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