Security Sector Reform
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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. Backgrounders, including translations into a number of languages, can be downloaded free of charge from the DCAF website.

DCAF Backgrounders available:

Child Soldiers

Contemporary Challenges for the Intelligence Community

Defence Attachés

Defence Reform

Democratic Control of Armed Forces

Female Staff Associations in the Security Sector

Gender and Security Sector Reform

Intelligence Services

Military Ombudsmen

Multiethnic Armed Forces

National Security Policy

Parliament’s Role in Defence Budgeting

Parliament’s Role in Defence Procurement

Parliamentary Committees on Defence and Security

Parliamentary Oversight of Intelligence Services

Police Reform

Private Military Companies

Security Sector Governance and Reform

Security Sector Reform and Intergovernmental Organisations

Security Sector Reform in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Sending Troops Abroad

States of Emergency

Trafficking in Human Beings

Vetting and the Security Sector