MIDTERM REVIEW WORKSHOP From June 6-8, 2016, members of the “Hybrid Security Governance in Africa Programme” research team met in Hargeisa (Somaliland) for the Project’s Midterm Review Workshop organised by the African Security Sector Network (ASSN) and the Academy for…
Workshop on Security Sector Reform for South Sudan
The South Sudan Action network on Small Arms (SSANSA) with support from PAX, CORDAID and the Africa Security Sector Network (ASSN) convened a three day training on Security Sector Reform (SSR) for civil society representatives in South Sudan. The workshop…
OGN Validation Workshop
From 09 – 11 November 2015, the African Union’s Defence and Security Division in collaboration with the African Security Sector Network (ASSN) held a validation workshop for the technical tools produced for the operationalization of the AU Policy Framework on…
Conclusions of the November 2014 Africa Forum on Security Sector Reform
26 November 2014 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The African Union (AU) hosted the Africa Forum on Security Sector Reform (SSR), from 24 – 26 November 2014, at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa. The Forum was organised by the AU…
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…
Second ASSN Call for Security Sector Reform Consultants
10 March 2014 ACCRA, Ghana – Following the adoption of the African Union’s Security Sector Reform Policy Framework (AU-SSRPF) by the 20th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union in January 2013, the ASSN signed a Grant Support Agreement…