Connections
Contents
Lessons from the Post-Totalitarian Transformation of Intelligence Services
Transformation of State Security and Intelligence Services in Poland – A Job Still Unfinished
Lessons Learned from Military Intelligence Services Reform in Hungary
Intelligence and Security Services Reform and Oversight in Ukraine – An Interim Report
Infogate Influences on Reforms of South Africa’s Intelligence Services
Abstract:
International stabilization missions are often unsuccessful, as demonstrated by the fact that a large number of countries that have hosted such missions have also relapsed into conflict within 20 years. The author suggests looking to experiences of resilience-based peacebuilding for more successful examples. These remain largely unknown or ignored and still do not enjoy the attention they deserve, whether because the ‘wrong’ NGO crowd dominates peacebuilding programming, the ‘wrong’ departments and ministries are considered the main peacebuilding partners or the resilience-based projects simply are not costly enough to attract attention. A framework for resilience and examples from Guatemala, Liberia, Timor-Leste, and Afghanistan are discussed and lessons to be learned identified.
Previous Issue
The Fall 2020 issue of Connections: The Quarterly Journal presents a variety of security-related applications of the concept of resilience. Two articles address the relation to cybersecurity – one presenting a framework for assessing national cyber resilience, and the other the need to enhance the resilience of the armed forces to cyberat...
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