“The joint CIGI and North-South Institute conference, ‘At the Margins of SSR: Gender and Informal Justice’, aimed to increase awareness of gender and informal justice, two areas of security sector reform (SSR) that have often been overlooked. The morni …

“As the Arab Spring continues to take root across the Middle East bringing unprecedented democratic change and also a high level of instability, debate has emerged on the role of security sector reform (SSR) in the fledgling transitions. From June 20 t …