DCAF - Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, we speak to Jacqueline Dalton, Head ofeditorial content at Fondation Hirondelle. For over 30 years, this non-profit organisation has been building and supporting local media and journalists in fragile contexts to ensure that people facing crises have access to reliable, local, independent information.

Link to Fondation Hirondelle: https://www.hirondelle.org/fr/

Shaping Security puts security governance at the heart of the conversation, offering a clear and accessible way to understand today’s security challenges and what is truly at stake.

Link to the episode page with all resources: https://www.dcaf.ch/shaping-security-s01-e01

Direct link to the resources mentioned by Jackie Dalton  - Anatomy of a killing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbnLkc6r3yc

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This episode features Petra van Oijen, security sector governance and reform expert.

It reflects on Petra’s significant contribution over the past 20 years to our sector, through

- national security strategy development,

- gender equality,

- civil-military relations,

- trainings, and beyond - as one of the women who has helped build the field that we work in today.

Hervé Auffret, Senior Security Sector Reform advisor with DCAF, joins us in this podcast episode on the subject of defence reform.  Hervé's expertise as an SSR advisor, and as a former member of the French Navy, guides the discussion on a people-centred approach to defence. This podcast series, “Donors Talk SSR”, is hosted by DCAF’s International Security Sector Advisory Team and it aims to unpack different themes and practices within security sector governance and reform.

In this episode of Cyber Talks, hosted by Laylo Merali, we explore the impact of cyber violence on women and LGBTQ+ human rights defenders, as well as the diminishing cyber civic space for activists in these communities.

This episode has been produced following the launch of the publication "Online actions, offline harms: Case studies on Gender and Cybersecurity in the Western Balkans," co-authored by our guests Ivana Ranković from the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (Serbia) and Megi Reçi from the Institute for Democracy and Mediation (Albania).

In this episode of Cyber Talks, hosted by Laylo Merali, we delve into challenges that women and girls often encounter online - being targeted and subject to abuse and sexism, often leading to self-censorship - even among influential women, such as politicians.

This episode has been produced following the launch of the publication 'Online actions, offline harms: Case studies on Gender and Cybersecurity in the Western Balkans', co-authored by our guests Darvin Murić from the Center for Democratic Transition in Montenegro and Mila Josifovska Danilovska from Metamorphosis in North Macedonia.

This episode features Georgia Hinds, Legal Adviser on New Technologies of Warfare in the Arms and Conduct of Hostilities Unit at the ICRC. Through the lens of her work at the ICRC, Georgia unpacks the “black box” of artificial intelligence, looking at the challenges of integrating AI in autonomous weapons systems, and what this means for the conduct of warfare and security governance.

This episode features our Justice Advisor, Shahzada Ahmad. Shahzada has over 15 years of experience in development and has worked across many contexts on legal framework reforms, rule of law, and access to justice.

In this episode, Shahzada explores the emerging role of digitalisation and new technologies in justice reform, looking at success stories, challenges, and what international partners need to consider when supporting digitalisation projects related to justice reform.

The third episode of Donors Talk SSR features DCAF ISSAT’s Head of Advisory Field Support and Senior SSR Advisor, Dr. Anicia Lala. It is hosted by DCAF ISSAT’s Head of Outreach and Knowledge, Elsa Salame Dazin. This episode pays tribute to Anicia’s significant contributions over the past 25 years to the fields of security, justice, governance, democratisation, peacebuilding, and conflict prevention, particularly in Africa. As one of the women who has helped build the field that we work in today, she recalls her engagement as an advisor at the Mozambican Ministry of Defence, her contribution to founding the African Security Sector Network, as well as her role as a key expert in African civil-military dialogues that pre-dated the emergence of SSR. Her expertise contributed to so many organizations' achievements, including the first-ever global facilitation network on SSR (GFN-SSR), and to multilaterals such as the AU, EU, UN, OECD, ECOWAS, and SADC. Through this podcast, Dr. Lala reflects on how SSR has developed in the African continent, including the persisting opportunities to continue to build momentum for change, and create opportunities for innovative solutions.

To commemorate International Women’s Day on 8 March 2023, DCAF created a podcast that discussed the importance of gender equity in security, via a conversation with two senior operational commanders in the Honduran National Police. Both of these commanders underwent training from DCAF in 2022 on the subject and have been tasked by the Police Education Department to cascade the training within their operational units. The officers discuss why it is important for men to stand up and champion gender equity, demonstrating why International Women’s Day should be commemorated by all.

 IN SPANISH

The episode recognizes the history of women police officers and their role in gender equality's expansion and consolidation in the Honduran National Police. With the participation of Comisionada Sulma Reyes and Sub-Comisionada Persis Zaldivar, their stories and more than 20 years of experience in the Police help us understand that gender equality depends on the daily actions to respect human rights of all persons regardless of their gender, sexual orientation and identity.