Third seminar in developing criteria and indicators for measuring SSR

In the period 23-26 November 2009 seven organizations of the Western Balkans think tank consortium will present the results of the development of criteria and indicators for measuring security sector reform in Mavrovo, Macedonia. The criteria and indicators are being developed on the basis of the Methodology and Index for measuring security sector reform that the CCMR created for the project “Mapping and monitoring of the Security Sector Reform in Serbia”. Research results of this project were recently published in the “Yearbook on Security Sector Reform in Serbia”.

This will be third seminar organized within the three year-long project „Civil Society Capacity Building to Map and Monitor Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans“. Goal of this project is to create a comprehensive methodological model that would include methods, instruments, indicators, indexes and procedures for mapping, monitoring and measuring SSR in each Western Balkan country and a region as a whole. Project is promoting cooperation between regional civil society organizations through the regional network of civil society organizations specialized in security issues- Consortium of Western Balkans Security Think-Tanks, and it will also improve regional transparency of SSR processes in the neighboring countries.

Project is being implemented by CCMR and six other organizations from the region: Institute for International Relations from Zagreb, Centre for Security Studies from Sarajevo, Centre for Democracy and Human Rights from Podgorica, Analytica from Skopje, Institute for Democracy and Mediation from Tirana, Kosovar Centre for Security Studies from Pristina, as well as by Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF). Project is financially supported by the Norwegian Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs.