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Publications 2007 Security Sector Reform and the Protection of Civilians in Burundi:Accomplishments, Dilemmas and Ideas for International Engagement
Description: "This paper focuses on three themes in the area of SSR: police reform, the transformation of the military and civilian disarmament. Civilian oversight and democratic control are crosscutting considerations. In addition to providing insight into the Burundi–specific dimensions of international engagement in SSR, this paper attempts to elucidate opportunities and challenges for implementing a number of the core multilateral SSR commitments.

Police reform
Over the past two years there as been some progress in the reform of Burundi’s national police force. Yet a number of important challenges for police reform remain, including the fact that some members of the Burundian police continue to be implicated in human rights violations and that many police agents lack the capacity to adequately prevent or
react to crime. The range of international initiatives designed to help reform the police – and to provide much–needed training, equipment and strategic guidance – will likely make an important contribution to addressing some of these challenges and to fulfilling the priorities for reform identified by populations interviewed in a national survey conducted for this research. However, there are important elements of these contributions, including plans for training, coordination of external initiatives, and challenges with national ownership that need to be addressed. This paper offers a number of recommendations on how international and national actors can make a contribution to
improving the Burundian police’s capacity to protect vulnerable populations.
Author: Powell, K.
Publisher: North-South Institute CENAP/NSI Working Paper
Source: http://www.nsi-ins.ca/english/research/progress/54.asp

 

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