Routledge Security Sector Reconstruction and Reform in Peace Support Operations

This comprehensive volume from Routledge provides a critical framework for analysing security sector reform under international tutelage in post-conflict environments. Following violent conflict and military interventions, international organisations and coalitions increasingly engage in post-conflict reconstruction efforts. Security sector reform (SSR) forms a central part of this international agenda, addressing the endemic challenges that plague security sectors in post-conflict situations: politicisation, ethnicisation, corruption within security services, excessive military expenditure, professional deficits, and inadequate oversight mechanisms. The book examines how these structural and institutional weaknesses can be systematically addressed through coordinated reform initiatives, offering practical insights for policymakers, peacekeeping personnel, and scholars working on conflict resolution and state-building.