Local Ownership in Security: Case Studies of Peacebuilding Approaches This report (download here) explores ways to achieve meaningful local ownership in the security sector. It provides nearly forty case studies of civil society and security actors using the principles of peacebuilding to work together towards human security. Each case study highlights the efforts that civil society and security actors have undertaken in order to reach out to each other, create collaborative processes and participatory mechanisms to solve problems related to human security in particular local or national context. The report also tries to draw out lessons from these cases to help those who are seeking to engage with the civil society or security actors to improve human security to achieve better results. |
Chapter 2: Capacity Building for Training often is a starting point, enabling Most of the case studies in this section of the report document how civil society is providing training to security forces to help them improve their | The Philippines: Civil Society-Military-Police Capacity Building Israel and Palestine: Training Security Forces in Negotiation South Africa: Building Capacity for Human Security Brazil: Civil-Military-Police Joint Training Fiji: Training Military on Trauma Healing and Conflict Transformation US: Training Military in Trauma Awareness and Resilience Mali: Training Military in IHL and Human Rights Burundi: Leadership Training Programme US: Training for US Military US and Global: Training on Civilian Harm Mititgation Global Training on "Do No Harm" |
Chapter 3: Police-Community | Afghanistan: Democratic Policing Bangladesh: Community Security Uganda: Participatory Community Security Assessment Nepal: Business and Security Kenya: Preventing Youth Violenc Lebanon: Building Trust between Communities and Local Police Tanzania: Safety around Mining Sites Pakistan: Bridging Traditional Justice with Policing
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Chapter 4: Local Ownership in DDR This chapter describes four case studies where peacebuilding skills and processes | DRC: Peacebuilding-based DDR Mozambique: Civil Society Roles in DDR Afghanistan: Mediation-based DDR Burundi: Civil Society Roles in DDR |
Chapter 5: Gender Mainstreaming The following case studies show how peacebuilding organisations approach SGBV and the inclusion of women in different contexts. | Fiji: Women, Peace and Security in Defence Policy Pakistan: Gender-Responsive Policing Pakistan: Training Women to Participate in Security Policymaking |
Chapter 6: National Level Platforms This chapter explores national-level case studies | Burundi: Civil Society Consultation and Oversight in SSR/D Guatemala: Toward a Democratic Security Policy The Philippines: The "Bantay Bayanihan" Forum Ghana: A National Infrastructure for Peace Kenya: A National Peace Council West Africa: Early Warning and Early Response Senegal: The Armée-Nation as Indigenous Model for Peace Guinea: Civil-Military "Champions of Change" Yemen: National and Regional Dialogues on Justice and Security Libya: Multi-stakeholder National Dialogue Preparatory Commission |
Chapter 7: This chapter draws out the challenges and lessons learned identified in the case studies. |