Welcome to CESS
Our office is in the Dutch city of Groningen, but our experts live all over the world. Our mission is to promote transparency, accountability and effectiveness in the field of security.
Security Sector Reform (SSR)
In our programmes we engage in training, research and consultancy, mostly on Security Sector Reform (SSR). We provide SSR training (including training of trainers) and develop training material for practitioners in defence, law enforcement, intelligence and other government agencies, parliament, media and civil society. We teach SSR all over Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Watch our 5-minute video or read our SSR brochure for more information.
CESS News
Rule of Law in depth
2012-05-16
Between 8 – 11 May 2012, CESS and its Turkish partner the ARI movement organized a Conference and Training Workshop within the framework of the Good Governance in Turkey programme. Both events took place in Istanbul, Turkey. The subject of the two events was the Rule of Law and the Security Sector. The conference saw a turn out of 55 people and the training reached a number of 20.
Defence Budget Oversight on Agenda in Ankara
2012-03-20
On 13-16 March, CESS and its Turkish partner the ARI Movement co-organised a High Level Seminar and Training Workshop in the Good Governance in Turkey Programme. This event took place in Ankara and dealt with Financial Accountability and Budgetary Transparency of the Defence Sector. The High Level Seminar was attended by over 60 persons from all parties interested in this issue. The training course which was spread out over 3 days saw an average of 30 participants, with the crisis simulation seeing the highest participation of the whole programme.
