Overview
- Analyses Kosovo's security sector reform (SSR)
- Provides the first analysis of Kosovo's community of local researchers of post-conflict SSR
- Challenges internationally-driven security sector reform (SSR)
Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Security Sector Reform
- Kosovo
- International Rules
- Local Research
- Policy-making
- Peacebuilding
- Conflict Resolution
- International Practitioners
- Local Security Research
- Security Architecture
- Statebuilding Policy
- Local Marginalisation
- hybridity
- Kosovo's SSR
- post-conflict
- statebuilding
- Kosovo government
- local security research community
- SSR implications
- SSR practitioners
About this book
This book is driven by the question: what role is played by the local security research community in Kosovo’s internationally-led Security Sector Reform? Kosovo’s SSR has been heavily driven by international knowledge rather than the context-sensitive evidence, with negative implications for the legitimacy and sustainability of SSR. Centred on an analysis of an extensive interview survey of international SSR practitioners and local researchers in Kosovo and local research papers, this book highlights how local research has engaged with, challenged and contributed to international SSR. Despite the general experience of local marginalisation, local researchers have an important role to play. Following engagement with local research, international SSR practitioners may consider local context in greater depth and think more critically about SSR implications. This highlights the potentially key role that local researchers can play to support effective post-conflict recovery.
Reviews
“In this rigorously researched and lucid study, Phillipps convincingly demonstrates the harmful effects resulting from internationally-led security sector reform processes that fail to effectively draw on and integrate local knowledge and expertise. Top-down and templated, existing approaches have been characterised by missed opportunities and untapped potential. This important book explains how and why local research can play a valuable and constructive role in shaping more effective, sustainable and legitimate post-conflict statebuilding efforts.” (Thomas Waldman, Senior Lecturer in International Security Studies, Macquarie University, Australia)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jacob Phillipps holds a PhD in International Studies and Social Science from Coventry University, UK, where he was awarded a 3-year Special Exhibition Studentship. Prior to this, he completed an MA in Post-War Recovery Studies with the University of York Post-War Reconstruction and Development Unit. He has worked and conducted extensive research in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. He has presented his work in the UK and internationally, including at the International Studies Association annual convention, and published his academic work in peer-reviewed journals. Jacob has an ongoing interest in post-conflict recovery, peacebuilding, and the work of civil society organisations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Local Researchers and International Practitioners
Book Subtitle: Shaping Security Sector Reform in Kosovo
Authors: Jacob Phillipps
Series Title: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82661-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82660-4Published: 10 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82663-5Published: 10 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82661-1Published: 09 October 2021
Series ISSN: 1759-3735
Series E-ISSN: 2752-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 275
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Security Studies, International Relations, Public Policy