Research Catalog

Title

Identifying and mitigating risks in security sector assistance for Africa's fragile states / Stephen Watts.

Author

Watts, Stephen (Stephen Baldwin)

Publication

• Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2015]
• ©2015

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Additional Authors

• Arroyo Center issuing body.
• Arroyo Center, researcher. res
• Rand Corporation, issuing body. isb
• United States. Army sponsoring body. spn

Description

xx, 59 pages : color map; 23 cm

Summary

This report explores the nature of the risks inherent in U.S. security sector assistance to the fragile states of Africa and how the United States might better anticipate and mitigate these risks. It examines these issues through a review of qualitative and quantitative literature from both the academic and policy fields and through interviews conducted throughout the agencies of the U.S. government. The quantitative literature suggests a stark dilemma for those responsible for U.S. security sector assistance to the AFRICOM area of responsibility: The countries that are most in need of assistance are usually the ones least able to make positive use of it. Case studies of security sector assistance in the fragile countries in Africa are used to trace multiple specific pathways by which such assistance can have negative second- and third-order effects. Finally, the report provides numerous recommendations about ways in which the United States can improve the processes by which it monitors and evaluates, plans, and implements security sector assistance in the fragile states of Africa and more generally.

Alternative Title

Identifying and mitigating risks in SSA for Africa's fragile states

Subject

• Conflict management > Africa
• Military assistance, American > Risk assessment > Africa
• Political stability > Africa
• Security sector > Africa

Note

• "RR-808-A"--Cover page 4.
• "Arroyo Center."
• "Prepared for the United States Army."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-59).

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Summary -- The problem of security sector assistance in Africa -- Risks of SSA in the fragile states of Africa -- Improving U.S. security sector assistance processes to mitigate risk -- Conclusion -- References.

ISBN

• 0833087983
• 9780833087980

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library