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ISPI-DCAF Report
Conflicts, Pandemics and Peacebuilding: New Perspectives on Security Sector Reform in the MENA Region
Andrea Cellino
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Annalisa Perteghella
06 December 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic is not only a health challenge. In the MENA region, against the backdrop of protracted conflicts, instability, and an overall deterioration in socio-economic conditions, the coronavirus crisis adds another layer of vulnerability and has already had long-lasting repercussions on human security across the region. Moreover, as hybrid actors take on an important role as security providers amid the pandemic in a context of limited or absent oversight, risks associated to a lack of accountability, ethno-religious discrimination, human rights abuses and gender-based violence grow. While classical approaches to security provision tend to portray non-state actors and the State as inherently at odds, the complexity of a rapidly evolving security landscape throughout the region should trigger a revision of the very concept of effective governance. Against this backdrop, how should Security Sector Reform (SSR) strategies and programmes adapt? What lessons can be drawn from selected case studies such as Iraq, Libya, and Yemen?

This Report is published in collaboration with DCAF - Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance.

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Table of Contents

Introduction, 

Thomas Guerber, Paolo Magri

1. Building Security in Transitioning Societies

Ranj Alaaldin

2. The Challenge of Hybrid Actors on Security Governance Structures in MENA

Jérôme Drevon

3. Security Sector Reform in Libya: Avoiding the Risks of Politicisation

Jalel Harchaoui

4. SSR in Iraq Before and After the Covid-19 Pandemic

Irene Costantini

5. A Network Approach to Yemen’s SSR: From Army-Centric to Community-Oriented

Eleonora Ardemagni

Conclusions and Policy Recommendations

Andrea Cellino, Annalisa Perteghella

 

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Andrea Cellino
Head, North Aafrica Desk, Middle East and North Africa Division, Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF)
Annalisa Perteghella
ISPI Research Fellow and Scientific Coordinator of Rome MED Dialogues

The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the position of the institutions referred to or represented within this publication.

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