PUBLICATION: Analysis
Almanac on Security Sector Oversight in the Western Balkans
This publication aims to provide an independent research-supported overview on the key achievements and weaknesses in the accountability of security sectors of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, and to present what effect this has on the countries’ democratic transition.
The Almanac is finally available, and for free. The key output of a three-year long collaborative research project of seven Western Balkan think-tanks and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) focuses on improving the capacity of civil society organisations to map and monitor security sector governance and encourage reform.
The unique component of the Almanac is advanced methodology for mapping and monitoring security sector reform which was originally developed by the BCSP.
In addition to in-country research, the main activities of the project were capacity building workshops used for peer education and training of participating civil society organisations in the key issues for oversight over the security sector.
The partners of this project, which was entitled “Civil Society Capacity Building to Map and Monitor SSR in the Western Balkans” and which ran from early 2009 to early 2012 included: BCSP; Analytica, Skopje; the Centre for Security Studies (CSS), Sarajevo; the Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CEDEM), Podgorica; the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies (KCSS), Pristina; the Institute for International Relations (IMO), Zagreb; and the Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM), Tirana.
Tags: ..., accountability, albania, balkans, bosnia, countries, croatia, democratic, effect, herzegovina, kosovo, macedonia, montenegro, present, sectors, security, serbia, transition, weaknesses
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