How does Libra Advisory Group contribute to the academic and policy debate?
Libra’s directors and staff have contributed to numerous policy documents and peer-reviewed academic papers on security and justice sector reform. A list can be found in the publications section of this website. Libra Directors Piet Biesheuvel and Peter Wilson contributed to the drafting of the OECD-DAC Guidelines on Security System Reform. We run regular academic events, including a recent series of seminars co-organised with King’s College, London and a forthcoming conference at Wilton Park, which attract a wide range of academics, civil society representatives and government officials from donor, developing and post-conflict countries. We are particularly interested in how reform programmes can be implemented in ways which increase the ability of citizens to influence the day-to-day behaviour of the security and justice sector, and have coined the term “security sector evolution” to describe this approach. This was introduced in the paper “Security Sector Evolution: Which Locals, Ow
