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Facing the Terrorist Challenge - Central Asia's Role in Regional and International Co-operation

Facing the Terrorist Challenge - Central Asia's Role in Regional and International Co-operation - Study Groups: Regional Stability in Central Asia & Security Sector Reform

Study Groups: Regional Stability in Central Asia & Security Sector Reform

Beiträge in dieser Publikation:

Name Seiten/Dateigröße
Title, Impressum, Contents 6 Seiten / 407 KB PDF ansehen
6 Seiten (407 KB) PDF downloaden
6 Seiten (407 KB)
Border Security in Central Asia: Before and After 9/11 21 Seiten / 174 KB PDF ansehen
21 Seiten (174 KB) PDF downloaden
21 Seiten (174 KB)
Changes to Kyrgyzstan’s Special Forces; Influences on the War on Terror 21 Seiten / 298 KB PDF ansehen
21 Seiten (298 KB) PDF downloaden
21 Seiten (298 KB)
Tajikistan: Evolution of the Security Sector And the War on Terror 23 Seiten / 217 KB PDF ansehen
23 Seiten (217 KB) PDF downloaden
23 Seiten (217 KB)
Republic of Uzbekistan against Terrorism: Approaches, Experiences, Prospects 16 Seiten / 152 KB PDF ansehen
16 Seiten (152 KB) PDF downloaden
16 Seiten (152 KB)
Protection of Power in Central Asia - Using Terror as a Pretext? A Kirgyz NGO 23 Seiten / 198 KB PDF ansehen
23 Seiten (198 KB) PDF downloaden
23 Seiten (198 KB)
Security as a Holistic Idea and the Consequences for the Central Asian States 17 Seiten / 228 KB PDF ansehen
17 Seiten (228 KB) PDF downloaden
17 Seiten (228 KB)
The Terrorist Threat and Security Sector Reform in Central Asia: The Uzbek Case 19 Seiten / 173 KB PDF ansehen
19 Seiten (173 KB) PDF downloaden
19 Seiten (173 KB)
Migration, State Security and Regional Stability in Central Asia 11 Seiten / 148 KB PDF ansehen
11 Seiten (148 KB) PDF downloaden
11 Seiten (148 KB)
The Shanghai Organisation for Cooperation - The Tool for Security in Central Asia? 11 Seiten / 233 KB PDF ansehen
11 Seiten (233 KB) PDF downloaden
11 Seiten (233 KB)

Weiterführende Information:

  DCAF
  NATO-PfP Consortium

Vorwort

PREFACE

Democratic institution building in and democratic governance of the security sector continue to pose challenges to all governments which have emerged from the former Soviet Union. Sustainable democratization, however, presupposes not only a general willingness and informedness, but also operational knowledge which can only come from democratic practice.

European and Euro-Atlantic institutions have engaged Central Asia in a discourse on the comprehensive reform of state and societal institutions. The invitation to reform the security sector has as its objective an improvement of the security institutions and security-providing services as a change of the very ‘culture of security’. What is at stake is a shift from the ‘culture of state security’ to a ‘culture of cooperative security’, embedded in the Euro-Atlantic system.

This again implies not only a process of insightful adaptation to Euro-Atlantic standards, norms and procedures. It also implies a process of ‘un-learning’ the past. Accountability - the construction of transparent lines of responsibility for each individual regardless of their position in government - will need to replace the expectation of collective responsibility. Parliamentary and public democratic oversight of the security sector budgets and personnel will need to replace the expectation that state security comes before individual security, and that budgets are therefore best kept secret and security-providing services best kept beyond the reach of parliamentary and public control. Civil-military relations with a strong accent on civilian political leadership structures within Ministries of Defence, and the successful integration of the General Staff within them, will have to replace the expectation that the military forms a state within the state. Civil society organizations will develop the sufficient competence and expertise to independently assess security sector governance, replacing the organizations that previously disseminated ideas to the public (for good or ill, as vested political interests dictated). Collective cooperative security, as provided by an alliance of sovereign states, will replace the expectation of a rigid system of artificially homogenized and integrated states and their militaries, as well as expectations of Darwinian battles of nation against nation. The concept of human security will replace the concept of security for one’s nation - or one’s office.

Though almost every Central Asian state is engaged to some degree in a discourse on security sector reform, democratic oversight of the security sector, and civil-military relations, it would be incorrect to assume that the joint efforts of European, Transatlantic, regional and national actors (including the media, civil society and academia) have led to homogenous or at least sustainable progress. The added challenge of joining the global coalition in the ‘fight against terrorism’ has accelerated development in some departments of the security sector. It has, however, at the same time led to a standstill if not a backlash in the evolution of a culture of human and civil rights, not to mention international humanitarian law. As security sector reform unfolds in Central Asia, human rights and will need to triumph over all supposed justifications to curb them. Security Sector Reform is not about making repression better.

DDr. Philipp H. Fluri
Deputy Director
Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)
Geneva

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