Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Definitions and Concepts
1.1 Penal reform
1.2 Security sector reform
1.3 SSR as a means to promote human rights
1.4 Understandings of penal reform within SSR policy and approaches
1.5 Why is penal reform important from the perspective of the entiresecurity sector?
1.6 What are the security governance dimensions of penal reform?
1.7 Why approach penal reform from a security sector governanceperspective?
1.8 Why approach penal reform from an SSR perspective?
1.9 Concerns in situating penal reform activities as part ofSSR programming

2. Challenges of Penal Reform
2.1 Common challenges to the good functioning of the penal system
2.2 Common challenges to prison management
2.3 Challenges to effective external support to penal reform
2.4 Challenges to supporting penal reform in post-conflict contexts

3. Opportunities for Better Coordination and Lesson Sharing BetweenPenal Reform and SSR
3.1 Recognising penal reform within a comprehensive and integratedapproach to SSR
3.2 Applying good practice from penal reform to SSR
3.3 Applying good practice from SSR to penal reform
3.4 Making SSR within post-conflict peacebuilding more ‘penal sensitive’
3.5 Making penal reform within post-conflict peacebuilding more ‘SSRsensitive’

4. Conclusions and Ways Forward
4.1 Current international approaches to penal reform and SSR
4.2 What more do we need to know?