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NATO Defence Spending in Perspective
(A link to this article was provided in the Newsletter of the Canadian Association of Defence Organizations on 6 July:...
Jul 6, 2018


The Malian Crisis: thinking more broadly about the security sector agenda
For the UN, the Mali deployment has been politically one of its most important to date, one of its largest in terms of numbers of...
Nov 11, 2016


The Malian Crisis: chaos in the making
Background In the 1990s, Mali was often put forward as a model of African democracy. It is not hard to understand why. Following an...
Nov 11, 2016


The Malian Crisis: a security sector perspective
This is a three-part blog contribution providing a security sector perspective on the ongoing crisis in Mali and focusing on...
Nov 11, 2016


Canada in Africa: integrating SSR into peace and stabilization strategies
The Government of Canada recently unveiled its approach for supporting peace operations in Africa under the name Peace and Stabilization...
Oct 28, 2016


Canada in CAR ?
This blog originally appeared under the title of “Towards a Canadian Return to Peacekeeping: Part 3 – Exploring Canada’s options for a...
Oct 8, 2016


The Information Exchange on the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security, a Key
The Information Exchange on the OSCE Code of Conduct: A Key Tool for Implementation of The Information Exchange on the OSCE Code of...
Jun 2, 2015


Security Sector Reform in the Central African Republic
http://secgovcentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/SSR-2.0-Brief-1-Teodora-and-Law.pdf This brief looks into the implementation of SSR in...
Oct 23, 2014


South Sudan: Going South?
This blog was first published on the website of the Centre for Security Governance on 10 January 2014 Is South Sudan going south? Not...
Jan 10, 2014


The Best Thing (so far) about the Winter Olympics in Sochi – the release of Khodorkovsky and what it
Mikhail Khodorkovsky at his first press conference after his release from prison. Who knows what the Games may yet bring, but for now...
Dec 28, 2013


SSR and the Crisis in CAR
The Central African Republic (CAR) has been much in the news recently as the security situation has collapsed and gone from bad to worse....
Dec 12, 2013
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