Justice and Security Reform: Development Agencies and Informal Institutions in Sierra Leone

ISBN-13: 9780415642507 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 208 str.

Lisa Denney

Opis

In a context in which security sector reform has become a pervasive development strategy, this text considers the necessity and difficulty of engaging with informal (as well as formal) actors in this context, whilst assessing the impact of this engagement on the effectiveness of development programming.

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1: The United Kingdom’s ‘African Albatross’: DFID Policy on Sierra Leone Chapter 2: ‘Thicker’ Understandings of Conflict, Security and Governance Chapter 3: A Thickening Blue Line: Challenges of Informal Policing for the Family Support Units Chapter 4: Courting Local Justice: DFID’s Justice Sector Development Programme Chapter 5: Security and Justice Reform: Political and Bureaucratic Constraints Conclusion: Living with or Overcoming Political and Bureaucratic Confines

O autorze

Lisa Denney is a researcher at the Overseas Development Institute working on issues of security, justice, development and fragile states. She completed her doctorate in International Politics at Aberystwyth University on security and justice reforms in Sierra Leone.