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Announcing DCAF’s new Foundation Council President

We are glad to welcome Amin Awad as the new President of DCAF's governing Foundation Council. Of Sudanese and Swiss nationalities, over his 35-year career he has worked on critical peace and security operations in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the former Soviet Union, and former Yugoslavia. Most recently he was UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Crisis Coordinator for Ukraine. We are grateful to his guidance and expertise in this strategic advisory role at the head of our Foundation Council which acts as a valuable "sounding board" for DCAF’s Director.

04 Jul 2024

SSG/R awareness raising in The Gambia

In June, Foday Fofana, DCAF’s National Project Officer, delivered a lecture introducing the core concepts of security sector reform and good governance. It was part of a capacity-building training for staff in the Gambian Office of National Security (ONS). Coordinated by the Management Development Institute, this training underscored the vital partnership between DCAF and ONS. Since 2017, DCAF has been supporting the government-led series of reforms covering transitional justice, constitutional reform, national development, and security sector reform.

03 Jul 2024

Welcoming our 16 heads of field offices

Last week we had a full house at headquarters in Geneva with the arrival of all our heads of field offices for a week of knowledge sharing and discussion about applying SSG/R across the very different contexts in which we operate. A key topic in this year of elections around the world was how to support local partners to find effective entry points for good governance processes in fragile and conflict-affected places where the scope for democratic oversight has been severely compromised. They also met with representatives of DCAF’s governing Foundation Council to help provide first hand knowledge to bridge the gap between SSG/R policy at the international level, and practice on the ground.

01 Jul 2024

Welcoming the President of the Swiss Council of States

DCAF and our sister centres had the honor of welcoming Eva Herzog to the Maison de la Paix this week. DCAF, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining are all Swiss foundations that work, in different ways, to advance the security of people and states around the world. We are thankful to Switzerland for its steadfast partnership in our work and for its global leadership in promoting peace and security.

26 Jun 2024

Sowing the seeds of good governance in military officers of the future

DCAF’s team in Skopje recently participated in the Military Summer Campus 2024 in North Macedonia. The Summer Campus is an annual military exercise organized by the North Macedonian army for officer cadets from 14 NATO and non-NATO countries. They have lectures on various topics related to defense and security and take part in a military exercise designed to test their skills and strategic knowledge. DCAF presented the principles and mechanisms of effective accountability of armed forces, and introduced our Intelligence and Security Sector Reform Programme in North Macedonia.

25 Jun 2024