Programmes
Border Management in Tajikistan
(February 2011 - May 2011)
Promoting Good Governance in the Security Sector of Turkey
(April 2010 – March 2013)
Georgia Parliamentary Programme: a capacity-building and good governance programme
(December 2008 - November 2011)
Today, democratic principles are more and more widely acknowledged, even in the security sector. The work of our centre has changed accordingly. In our first 10 years, we explained and advocated the idea of democratic governance in the defence sector. Then we gradually shifted to building capacity. Now our chief concern is to help security sector practitioners in young democracies push through democratic reforms that their governments have embraced.
Some of our programmes aim to support democratic governance and Euro-Atlantic integration across a wide scope of policy areas. In Turkey, we deal with issues of good governance in the security sector, while in Moldova, we are training policy officials on negotiations with the EU. Both these activities are intended to help accession to the union.
Other programmes, such as our current work in Georgia and Moldova, aim to help parliaments improve their oversight of the security sector. Our activities in Moldova and Georgia are cases in point.
Another big strand of our work is the development and delivery of training programmes on Security Sector Reform. We have been doing this in five countries of Eastern Europe and the Caucaus and in Kazakhstan. Our most recent endeavour is a partnership with RACVIAC to provide SSR training for practitioners from South East Europe. The idea is not merely to help practitioners face the challenges of SSR, but also to train local instructors. For this purpose, we provide them with teaching packages and training for trainers.
