Report Saferworld I
An unprecedented experiment:
Security sector reform in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jeremy King
A Walter Dorn
Matthew Hodes
This is a co-publication of the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) and Saferworld.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Executive summary
Map: Bosnia-Herzegovina
1. Introduction
2. Military reform
- Demobilisation and reintegration of former combatants
- Military professionalisation
- MPRI: establishing a dangerous intra-state balance of power?
- The evolving role of NATO: from peace-keeping to peace-building
- The OSCE and the OHR: civil control, accountability and transparency
- UNMIBH: training the 'peace-kept' to peace-keep
- A way forward?
3. Police reform and restructuring
4. Customs and border services reform
- The role of USAID and the European Union in customs training
Creation of a State Border Service
5. Judicial and legal reform
- Early efforts
- Civil-military synergy: CEELI and SFOR
- Co-ordination: OHR and the human rights structures
- The Peace Implementation Council and OHR leadership
- The role of the United Nations
- Drafting new substantive laws: OHR legal department
- Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe
- The emergence of the IJC and other future efforts
6. Corrections reform: neglected?
7. Intelligence reform: too tough to tackle?
8. Civilian oversight of the security sector
9. Disarmament measures: making Bosnia safe for itself
- Small arms remain a big problem
- SFOR's small arms and light weapons confiscation measures
- Armament programmes: going in the wrong direction
10. Conclusion: a sympathetic critique and a call for a comprehensive approach
APPENDIX 1: International organisations involved in BiH
APPENDIX 2: Non-governmental organisations involved in BiH
security sector
APPENDIX 3: International organisations responsible for implementation
of Dayton Accord human rights provisions
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