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 by the end of 2010.
For justice, conflict and fragile states resources visit the
The DCAF Backgrounders Series
The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) Backgrounders give clear and concise introductions to topics of security sector governance and reform that are of primary concern to practitioners. These documents are drafted by DCAF in consultation with topical experts.
Below are a list of these documents with direct links to the short publications. All are available in English and a number have been translated into other languages including Albanian, Azeri, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, French, Georgian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
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- Accountability / Transparency
- Border management
- Civil society
- Disarmament, Demobilisation & Reintegration
- Financial management
- Gender issues
- Human security
- Intelligence
- International assistance
- Military / Soldiers
- Non-state actors
- Poverty
- Education / Training
- Project sustainability
- Religion
- Safety, Security and Access to Justice
- Small Arms & Light Weapons
- Social exclusion
- Statebuilding / Governance
- Violent conflict
