This handbook is primarily for commanders and planners, rather than for lawyers. It is a practical guide that provides templates, tools, best practices, and lessons learned for planning and execution at the theater-of-operations level and below. Its primary purpose is…
This publications presents lessons from several recent SSR endeavors – including Burundi, Liberia, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Timor-Leste, and Chile. It also includes discussions on the integration of SSR into peace agreements, and the incorporation of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR)…
This report provides several lessons from the SOLLIMS database – covering Iraq, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Timor-Leste, and Liberia – which accentuate the importance of police forces and building HN police/security capacity as an integral component of peacekeeping and stability operations.
Recent stability operations have demonstrated the critical nexus between leadership and “understanding / engaging the people” during stability operations. This publication presents a number of lessons from the SOLLIMS database covering the impacts/influences of leadership through informed engagements with societal groups during…
This PKSOI Paper is designed to further the U.S. and other interested international governments’ understanding of how Security Sector Reform (SSR) was conducted in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2003. This was America’s first attempt at conducting formalized SSR, so it…