Folke Bernadotte Academy – Swedish agency for peace, security and development
The film has been developed in cooperation with the Swedish advertising agency Kärnhuset and will be used for educational purposes on our courses, seminars, workshops and website.
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2019-06-05 10:26According to the FBA’s definition, security sector reform (SSR) is a concept that frames technical reforms within a political process.
I think back two weeks to when I was in Liberia, reciting the for me now very familiar but abstract above sentence. The participants in the room, 16 program officers from the Liberian National Security Council Secretariat, were repeating this sentence with me in unison.
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2019-05-09 16:04FBA is part of Sweden’s development aid within the area of peace and security
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