The ASSN Quarterly newsletter is published four times a year in January, April, July and October. Its aim is to update you on the activities of the African Security Sector Network (ASSN), as well as to highlight the latest developments…
La Réforme des Systèmes de Sécurité et de Justice en Afrique Francophone

(Reform of Security and Justice Systems in Francophone Africa) Organisation Internationale de La Francophonie (OIF)/ UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC) / African Security Sector Network (ASSN). March 2010 Editor(s): Kossi Agokla, Niagalé Bagayoko and Boubacar…
Changing Intelligence Dynamics in Africa

Editors: Sandy Africa and Johnny Kwadjo in collaboration with Paul Jackson, Brigadier (rtd) Wilson Boinett, Andrew Agaba, David Pulkol and Laurie Nathan GFN-SSR and ASSN June 2009 ISBN: 0 7400 2763 X 978 0 7400 2763 1 A common…
Security Sector Reform Provisions in Peace Agreements

(University of Birmingham Press, 2009) January 2009 Author: Eboe Hutchful, African Security Sector Network (ASSN). Published and Printed in the UK by the University of Birmingham, 2009 Peace agreements form a crucial entry point for security…
African Security Sector Network
Introduction The African Security Sector Network (ASSN) recently signed a Memorandum of Grant Conditions with the International Development and Research Centre (IDRC) for the execution of a research project extending over a three year period. The project is titled Hybrid Security Governance in Africa…
SADSEM Academics Document Regional National Security Policy and Practice in Special Issue of Journal
30 June 2014 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Various members of the Southern African Defence and Security Management (SADSEM) Network contributed articles to a special issue of the Journal of Public Policy in Africa (Joppa), published in June 2014 around the…
ASSN, DCAF Parliamentary Workshop in Burkina Faso
12 June 2014 Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso On 10-12 June 2014, the African Security Sector Network (ASSN) and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) jointly organised and facilitated a three-day parliamentary capacity building workshop in Bobo-Dioulasso,…
ASSN’s Kellie Conteh Receives Sierra Leonean Presidential Award
28 April 2014 FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – One of the ASSN’s eminent members, Brigadier (Rtd) Kellie Conteh, has been awarded Sierra Leone’s Grand Commander of the Order of the Rokel (GCOR). Brigadier Conteh received the award on 28 April 2014…