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Volume 16, Issue 2 (2020)

Ingrid L.P. Nyborg
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), As, Norway Daniel Juddson Lohmann
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), As, Norway

The world is increasingly interconnected - insecurity in one country can both directly and indirectly affect the security of people, countries and regions that are far away. Therefore, when conflict erupts in one part of the world, .

Stig Jarle Hansen
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), As, Norway

This article asks how variations of state territorial control have influenced police missions in the recent past, and illustrate how recent police reforms were based on the structure of a ‘western’ type state with clearly identi.

Ingvild Magnæs Gjelsvik
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, Norway

A reform is underway in Kenya, aimed at transforming the police organization into a people centered police service. Among other things, this involves enhancing police-public trust and partnerships through community policing (COP). T.

A. Heather Coyne
Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Yemen, United Nations, Amman, Jordan Ingrid Nyborg
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), As, Norway

Most international support for community policing focuses primarily if not exclusively on capacity building of the government, namely Ministries of Interior and police forces. For structural reasons, these organizations—in and of .

Stian Lid
Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway Clifford C. Omondi Okwany
Department of Political Science and Public Administration, The University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Community-oriented policing (COP) has become an important innovation in policing throughout the world, with variations among countries and regions, and over time. We identify and discuss contextual factors that determine the formati.

Qasim Ali Shah
Department of Development Studies, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan Bahadar Nawab
Department of Development Studies, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan Ingrid Nyborg
Department of International Environment and Development Studies-Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway Noor Elahi
Department of Development Studies, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan

Unlike other faith-based conflicts, the militancy in Swat seems unique, as militants used religion for promoting their agenda and giving voices to the grievances of the poor people through a popular narrative likely without knowing .

Fabienne L. R. Coenders
Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

This study aims to identify insecurities among youth in Kosovo, utilizing insights from the field to advance and deepen the concept of human security, capturing the connection between insecurity and affiliated agency. It also explor.

Shai André Divon
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Ås, Norway Arthur Owor
Centre for African Research, Gulu City, Uganda

This paper analyses the origin and evolution of the Aguu, a group of street youth/children labelled as a criminal gang operating in the streets of Gulu, Uganda. Based on a series of interviews, focus group discussions, participant o.

Arturo Matute
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the Valley of Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala

The paper describes the process of security sector reform in Guatemala with reference to the
efforts to implement community-based policing practices. The results point to the difficulties of shaking off public understandings of.

Jaishankar Ganapathy
Norwegian Police University College, Oslo, Norway Tor Damkaas
Norwegian Police University College, Oslo, Norway Alf Halvar Naesje
The Centre Party, Hedmark and Oppland, Norway

Police reform in post-conflict societies is increasingly important in international peace support operations. Post-conflict situations are complex, and addressing security and insecurity issues is therefore challenging. Evaluations,.

Ingrid L.P. Nyborg
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Ås, Norway Bahadar Nawab
COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Abbottabad Campus, Islamabad, Pakistan

This paper explores the transition from military to civil security in post-militancy and subsequent militant operations in 2009 and the floods of 2010 in the Swat Valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan. Based mainly on qualitat.

Shai André Divon
Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Ås, Norway

In 2017 the Uganda Police Force (UPF) issued a Strategy for Community Policing (COP). The aim of the strategy is to provide a framework for the operationalisation of COP in the country. COP in Uganda is viewed both as a philosophy a.

John-Andrew McNeish
Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway Arturo Matute
Department of International Development Studies, University of the Valley of Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala Erika Rojas Ospina
Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway Hugo Frühling
Institute of Public Affairs, University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

In this article we discuss the comparative impact and significance of Community-Oriented Policing (COP) in Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua). We emphasize in particular the formal role of COP as a means to re-es.

Jaishankar Ganapathy
Department of Post Graduate Studies, Norwegian Police University College, Oslo, Norway Ajmal Nimruzi
Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Ås, Norway Shakirullah Dawar
Department of Development Studies COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan

Youth are the backbone of any nation, and they are decisive in its development or destruction. A considerable portion of the population in both Afghanistan and Pakistan consists of youth. This paper discusses the impacts of unemploy.

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Dr. Sabina Lautensach
Human Security Institute, Canada