Operationalising the Comprehensive Approach: Learing from the Field
A Report by the Commander's Initiative Group (CIG) (CIG Report 4)
Dr Andrew Rathmell and Prof Julian Lindley-French outline lessons to be learned from the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps' deployment to the ISAF Joint Command in 2011.
Feburary 2012
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Brotherly Enemies: the Rise and Fall of the Syrian-Egyptian Intelligence Axis, 1954-1967
Dr Andrew Rathmell examines the emergence, consolidation and fall of the Syrian-Egyptian intelligence alliance during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Syria's Intelligence Services: Origins and Development
Dr Andrew Rathmell outlines the origins and development of the Syrian intelligence services and provides insight into their use of covert action and terrorism. The article originally appeared in The Journal of Conflict Studies.
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How do we Know Whether Development Programs Contribute to Stabilisation?
Dr Andrew Rathmell and Michael Lund discuss lessons learned from their evaluation work in Afghanistan, the Philippines and Southern Sudan. This presentation was given at the US State Department's Fourth Annual Conference on Program Evaluation.
June 2011
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Innovative Approach to Evaluating Interventions in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States: The Case of Helmand
Focusing primarily on the Helmand context, Samy Ahmar and Christine Kolbe discuss the challenges to evaluation in environments where there is immense pressure to deliver and demonstrate results, and also huge challenges in doing so. The paper examines the role of evaluation in situations where there is a dearth of baseline data available in a complex and fluctuating operating environment characterised by insecurity, hampered by fractured government systems and swayed by political imperatives. The paper provides practical examples of innovative approaches to evaluation.
April 2011
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Supporting Sustainable Transition in Afghanistan: A Provincial Perspective
Jonathon Moss considers what needs to be done to promote sustainable transition in Afghanistan. Critical to successful transition will be getting international support right at the provincial level.
February 2011
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Policing Inteqal: Next Steps in Police Reform in Afghanistan
This report has been commissioned by the British Army’s Afghan COIN Centre to inform future force development, training, operations and doctrine in relation to defence support to policing in a South-West Asian context. The paper is intended to support development of a model for effective policing in Afghanistan, taking into account the Afghan context, regional experiences and international lessons learned.
November 2010
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The Future of Security Reform
In the eBook, The Future of Security Sector Reform, Peter Wilson and Alex Martin contributed Chapter 19, The Role of the Private Sector in Security Sector Reform.
November 2010
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Reframing Security Sector Reform for Counterinsurgency - Getting the Politics Right
Dr Andrew Rathmell writes for NDC’s 14th Forum Paper ‘Complex Operations: NATO at War and on the Margins of War’, reframing SSR for Counterinsurgency.
July 2010
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Operationalising the Comprehensive Approach
In this Chatham House publication, Dr Andrew Rathmell, along with Professor Julian Lindley-French and Professor Paul Cornish, discuss how NATO can make a reality of its aspirations to apply a Comprehensive Approach to complex operations such as Afghanistan.
March 2010
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Adapting Government for Stabilisation and Counter-Insurgency Operations
Dr Andrew Rathmell writes for the bi-monthly RUSI Journal, discussing possible adaptations for successful stabilisation missions.
December 2009
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Security and Justice Development - What Next?
In this paper for the Journal of Security Sector Management, Dr Andrew Rathmell discusses the future for security and justice development.
November 2009
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Multilateral Approaches to Security: Choices for Defence
"The future mission of Britain's armed forces may lie in reforming multilateral institutions such as the United Nations and NATO. Britain must help build efficient international interventions to prevent and stabilise conflict; its credibility and influence rely on it." In RUSI publication ‘Future Defence Review’ Dr Andrew Rathmell discusses UK multilateral security institutions, their importance, the pressures on them, and argues for a new radical approach.
October 2009
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Security Sector Evolution: Understanding and Influencing how Security Sector Institutions Change
In this paper Peter Wilson and Volha Piotukh focus on improved design, implementation and review of SSR programmes. Borrowing theory from economic and strategic management, they consider the implications of these insights for a new "evolutionary" approach to SSR.
July 2009
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The role of the Private Sector in Security Sector Reform
Paper prepared by Alex Martin and Peter Wilson for the May 2009 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) e-conference on the future of security sector reform.
June 2009
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The value of Non-Governmental Intelligence: Widening the Field
In this paper for Intelligence and National Security, Alex Martin and Peter Wilson argue that the process of setting intelligence requirements could be opened to a wider range of actors.
December 2008
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Security Sector Evolution: Which Locals? Ownership of What?
In Chapter 5 of DCAF’s 2008 Yearbook, Alex Martin and Peter Wilson contribute to the debate on what local ownership is and why it matters for Security Sector Reform (SSR). They argue that deep local ownership of SSR is best achieved by security sector evolution, where security agencies have the long-term capacity and incentives to change in response to signals from society.
November 2008
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Reforming the Iraqi Ministry of Interior
Andrew Rathmell's presentation to the US Institute of Peace.
2008
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Challenges of Police and Justice Reform
In this paper for Police Practice and Research, Gordon Peake et al argue that failures in police reform have resulted mainly from the priority of donor over recipient interests, lack of knowledge about policing, non-appreciation of the complexities of local security conditions, and the inability to link conceptual advice to the practicalities of implementation.
March 2008
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The Lessons of Eastern Europe for Modern Intelligence Reform
In this paper for Conflict, Security and Development, Alex Martin argues that increases in the operational capability of Eastern European intelligence services have rarely been accompanied by increases in legitimacy and oversight.
December 2007
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Fixing Iraq's Internal Security Forces
Andrew Rathmell discusses reform of the Ministry of Interior in Iraq in this paper for the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
November 2007
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Security and Justice Sector Reform Programming in Africa
Piet Biesheuvel et al have prepared a review for DFID on 'Security and Justice Sector Reform Programming in Africa'.
2007
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OECD-DAC Handbook on Security System Reform
Peter Wilson wrote the Intelligence and Security Chapter of the OECD-DAC Handbook on Security System Reform, and Piet Biesheuvel was a major contributor to the Police chapter.
2007
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US Policy Options for Iraq: A Reassessment
In this Rand report, Andrew Rathmell et al evaluate the costs and benefits of five alternative strategies the United States could pursue in Iraq. The authors argue that, as long as the United States remains in Iraq, policy actions must focus on improving the security of Iraq’s population by reducing violence. They offer recommendations for ways in which U.S. political, security, and economic policies in Iraq could be better geared to support this goal, though they emphasise the challenges inherent in this endeavour.
2007
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The Role of Communication in Governance: Detailed Analysis
The aim of this paper is to examine the role (both positive and negative) that
communication plays in promoting good governance by analysing available
evidence and highlighting specific case studies, evaluation reports and
academic articles detailing the impact of communication on governance. The
purpose is to move beyond anecdote and conjecture, to review the evidence
and provide a reliable basis for policies and programmes on communication for good governance.
2007
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