Security Sector Reform: Defence Reform in South Sudan between 2005 and 2013

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The internationally dominant framework for Security Sector Reform presents an integrated, holistic approach to national security sector management that claims to deliver, through international donors, a system for conflict-prone countries that will contribute to the stability required to enable sustainable peace and development. Security Sector Reform policy explains how a prescribed methodology, based on liberal democratic principles of good governance, contributes to long-term conflict prevention by addressing key sources of instability. This conception is challenged by alternative claims that Security Sector Reform represents a façade that in actuality primarily serves the interests of Western industrialised nations in reinforcing the international security order, and that adhering to core themes of Security Sector Reform can in fact be ineffectual at best and destabilising at worst. Security Sector Reform remains relatively new, in academic terms, and is still being tested through practical implementation experiences. This thesis examines aspects of the UK Government’s Defence Transformation project in South Sudan, as a component part of wider Security Sector Reform programming, for the purpose of evaluating the methodology and normative approach against claims of effectiveness as a conflict prevention mechanism. South Sudan provides an interesting case in that it is a conflict-prone country where significant international resources were dedicated to the implementation of the Security Sector Reform framework, yet done so recently as to remain under-analysed from a scholarly point of view. It is hoped that this thesis will in a small way contribute to the debate surrounding the efficacy and intent of Security Sector Reform as a development strategy and as a conflict prevention mechanism.

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South Sudan, Security Sector Reform, Defence

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F. McLean, “Security Sector Reform: Defence Reform in South Sudan between 2005 and 2013,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2018.