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Security Sector Reform


Security Sector Reform is a sub-theme of Theme: Reconstruction & Peacebuilding, and forms part of PeaceWomen’s framework to organize our women, peace and security resources for ease of use and understanding. It is important to note that themes and sub-themes are interlinked and mutually reinforcing.

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  • January 10, 2012 (The Africa Report)
    DRC: Protectors or Sexual Predators "A dead rat is worth more than the body of a woman." Those were the words of one distraught young woman whom I met in Walikale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2010. As the world was once again outraged at the reports of mass rapes in early June 2011 in the South Kivu, her words came back to me. Those attacks marked the fourth incident in a series of mass rapes which took place in the previous 18 months in the country. Hundreds of children, women and men have been left to recover with little or no assistance.
  • December 9, 2011 (Taipei Times)
    ISRAEL: Lecture, The Price of Peace Following the outbreak of the Second Intifada (Palestinian uprising) in 2000, Dalit Baum joined the Coalition of Women for Peace, a feminist organization formed by Palestinian and Jewish women who work together for a lasting and just peace.
  • October 13, 2011 (UN News Centre)
    AFRICA: Security Sector Reform in African Countries Emerging from Conflict Vital, UN says The Security Council today debated the need to reform the security sector in African countries emerging from conflict, with the United Nations peacekeeping chief calling it crucial to ensuring stability, reducing poverty and promoting sustainable development. “In Liberia, for example, unresolved security sector governance and management issues in the mid-1990s contributed to the re-emergence of conflict and a dramatic 80 per cent downturn in its economy,” Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous told the 15-member body of the West African country that slipped back into bloody civil war after a 1995 peace deal.
  • October 5, 2011 (Xinhua net)
    INTERNATIONAL: Security Council to focus on security sector reform The United Nations Security Council will focus on security sector reform and women's role in peace and security in October, a senior official said here on Tuesday. Joy Ogwu, permanent representative of Nigeria to the UN and the president of the Security Council for October, made the remarks at a press briefing. Nigeria is one of the 10 non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. The first council open debate slated for Oct. 12 will be on security sector reform which has been initiated by the Nigerian presidency. It will draw input from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on security reform.
  • July 27, 2011 (The New Times)
    RWANDA: Country Commended for Anti-GBV Campaign Members of security organs from various countries applauded Rwanda for taking adopting numerous initiatives to fight Gender Based Violence (GBV).

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Gender & Security Sector Reform Toolkit

The Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit includes:

  • User Guide
  • 12 Tools (20 pages)
  • 12 Practice Notes (4 pages, based on the Tools)
  • Annex on International and Regional Laws and Instruments related to SSR and Gender

Gender & Security Sector Reform Toolkit

 

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