International Assistance to Police Reform: Managing Peacebuilding
About this ebook
Building on field research and over one hundred expert interviews, International assistance to police reform: Managing Peacebuilding systematically compares such operations in two different contexts—Kosovo and Afghanistan—by focusing specifically on international assistance for local police reform since 1999.
Four comprehensive case studies examine operations in Kosovo and Afghanistan before and after the European Union took over police reform responsibilities: in Kosovo from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and in Afghanistan from the German government. Speaking to scholars and practitioners in domestic and international organizations, the book drills in the complex relation between headquarter diplomats and field level conflict experts. Its findings combine to a set of recommendations for policy-makers to better align their operations to the contentious politics of conflict management and peacebuilding.
About the author
Steffen Eckhard is senior researcher at the University of Munich and a non-resident research fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. His research focuses on the conflicts and reconciliation of different rationales in politics and administration—both in domestic and international public organizations—with an emphasis on global peace and security governance.
