Security system reform (including justice)

See also the OECD DAC Handbook on Security System Reform

See also the DAC Guidelines - Security System Reform and Governance

See below for sources referred to in the issues briefs on the following topics:
Security System Reform - Small Arms and Light Weapons - 
Equal Access to Justice and the Rule of Law

 OECD:

• Security and Human Security: What Implications for West Africa? Sahel and West Africa Club (2005)
• OECD DAC Gendernet tipsheets (2001) Conflict, peacebuilding, disarmament and security:  Small arms, and Gender Perspectives on Disarmament and Development,  

Participant Documents:

The following documents have been published by CPDC participants:

 Germany

• Promoting Good Governance in Post-Conflict Societies GTZ (2004)

 European Commission

•  Handbook on promoting good governance in EC development and co-operation (2004)

 The Netherlands:

• The Stability Assessment Framework - Designing Integrated Responses for Security, Governance and Development  - Clingendael (2005)
• Enhancing Democratic Governance of the Security Sector: An Institutional Assessment Framework Clingendael (2003)

 United Kingdom:

• Fighting poverty to build a safer world: a strategy for security and development (2005)
• UK Policy and Strategic Priorities on Small Arms and Light Weapons 2004-2006 (2004)
• Tackling Poverty by Reducing Armed Violence. Recommendations from a Wilton Park workshop. London
• Understanding and supporting security sector reform (2002)
• Safety, security and accessible justice: Putting policy into practice (2002)
• DFID Briefing Note on Non-state Justice and Security Systems (2004)

see also:

• Security Sector Development Advisory Team in the Ministry of Defence
  • Hannah G., O'Brien K., and Rathmell  A., Intelligence and Security Legislation for Security Sector Reform
• Why we need to work more effectively in fragile states (2005)

 United States: 

• Demilitarization, Demobilization, and the Social and Economic Integration of Ex-combatants: Lessons from the World Bank Africa Experience (1997)
• Strengthening the Rule of Law & Respect for Human Rights

 United Nations: 

• UN Development Programme (UNDP) - Bureau for Development Policy: Democratic Governance Group, and its Oslo Governance Centre
  • Access to Justice – a practice note (2004)
  • Human Rights – a practice note (2005)
• UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery
  • Small Arms Unit 
• UN Department of Disarmament Affairs:
  • Gender Perspectives on Small Arms 
• UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations: Gender Resource Package for Peacekeeping Operations, Chapter 19, Gender and the Legal and Judicial System (2004)
• UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women: Framework for Gender Security Sector Reform
• Report of the UN Secretary-General on the rule of law and transitional justice in conflict and post-conflict societies (3 August 2004)
• UN Human Rights Committee - General Comment No. 31 on Article 2 of the Covenant: The Nature of the General Legal Obligation Imposed on States Parties to the Covenant 
• Report of the Conference on Gender Justice in Post-Conflict Situations, “Peace Needs Women and Women Need Peace” (2004)

• World Health Organisation: World report on violence and health (2002)

 World Bank Group:

• Demobilisation and reintegration
• on justice
• Mine action

Other sources referenced in the issues brief on SSR:

• African Security Dialogue and Research (ASDR)
• The Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation - see section on Security Sector Reform
  • Baechler, G. (2001) Conflict transformation through state reform
  • Farr, V (2004): Voices from the Margins, A response to security sector reforms in developing and transitional countries
• The Berlin International Centre for Conversion
• Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD)
• Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) - South Africa 
• Clingendael: The Netherlands Institute of International Relations - Security and Conflict Programme
• Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform
  • the Compendium of SSR Good Practice

  • Security Sector Governance in Africa: A Handbook, eds. Nicole Ball and Kayode Fayemi(2004) 

  • Providing Security for People: Security Sector Reform in Africa (2003)
• Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) - see:
  • Bryden and Hänggi (2004)  Reform and Reconstruction of the Security Sector
  • Born and Leigh (eds) Making Intelligence Accountable: Legal Standards and Best Practice for Oversight of Intelligence Agencies
  • Vlachova, M and Biason L, Violence against Women as a Challenge for Security Sector Governance, Chapter 7 in Challenges of Security Sector Governance.  (2003)
• International Peace Academy:
  • Arresting Insecurity: Security Sector Reform: Policy and Practice, edited volume (2005)
  • Police Reform through Community-Based Policing: Philosophy and Guidelines for Implementation (2004) - with Saferworld 
• Institute for Security Studies:
  • Williams R. (2000) Africa and the Challenges of Security Sector Reform
• The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Other sources referenced in the issues brief on Small Arms and Light Weapons:

• Bonn International Center for Conversion, Brief 24, Gender Perspectives on Small Arms and Light Weapons, Regional and International Concerns, (2002)
• Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue: 
  • No Relief: Surveying the Effects of Gun Violence on Humanitarian and Development Personnel (2005)
• Centre for International Co-operation and Security (CICS), Bradford University:
  • Armed Violence and Poverty in Brazil. A case study of Rio de Janeiro and an assessment of Viva Rio
  • Armed Violence and Poverty Initiative
  • Biting the Bullet publications
• Control Arms: 
  • The impact of guns on women’s lives,  Amnesty International, Oxfam International and International Action Network on Small Arms (2005)
• Economic Community of West African States
• Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD)
• Institute for Security Studies, South Africa
• International Alert, Oxfam and Saferworld:  
  • Action Against Small Arms: A resource and training handbook (2003)
  • Putting a Human Face to the Problem of Small Arms Proliferation: Gender Implications for the Effective Implementation of the UN Programme for Action (International Alert 2005)
• International Action Network on Small Arms
• Nairobi Secretariat on Small Arms and Light Weapons
• OXFAM (2001) Conflict’s children: The human cost of small arms in Kitgum and Kotido, Uganda.
• Small Arms Survey
• Swiss Peace Foundation: Gender Awareness in Research on Small Arms and Light Weapons, A Preliminary Report (2005)
• Viva Rio - Brazil

Other sources referenced in the issues brief on Equal Access to Justice:

• American Association for the Advancement of Science - re transitional justice
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • Golub, Stephen (2003) Beyond Rule of Law Orthodoxy: The Legal Empowerment Alternative
  • Carothers, T. (1998) The Rule of Law Revival
• Ford Foundation
• Harvard University
• International Bar Association 
• International Center for Transitional Justice
• United States Institute of Peace
  • Establishing the Rule of Law in Iraq (2003)
• University of Ulster
• Vera Institute for Justice:   A Global Guide to the Development of Performance Indicators for the Justice Sector (2003)