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Security Sector Reform (SSR) at the United Nations
What is SSR
Armed forces, police, border guards, and other security institutions: elemental for security, sustaining peace and development. They stabilize, protect, and provide relief. But when poorly regulated, unaccountable, or sourced for political gain, the security sector becomes a liability instead of a force for good.
Security sector reform is the work undertaken by a government and its people to make the country's security institutions serve its citizens and provide people-centered security. Accountable institutions that contribute to the rule of law, improve lives and livelihoods for all.
What We Do
Providing genuine security to any population is a meaningful assignment, central to the United Nations Charter. The United Nations supports nationally led security sector reform. Our goal is to help states and societies develop effective, inclusive, and accountable security institutions that contribute to national and international security and sustainable development.
What's Happening
CROSSROADS Practical Guidance
Read our newly released CROSSROADS Module 10.7 Transnational Organized Crime and SSR. Jointly developed with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), this module dives into how TOC threats to peace, security, and development, and how Security Sector Reform can help.
Voices on SSR and Peacekeeping: Run-up to the 2025 Peacekeeping Ministerial
In light of the 2025 Berlin United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial (United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial 2025 | United Nations Peacekeeping), we are sharing a few voices on how SSR makes peacekeeping more effective and safer.
In Case You Missed It
Policy Brief Series
Don't miss out on our Policy Brief series on Good Governance in National Security! The first policy brief “We must think and work politicallyPDF” is available now.
SSuRGe Team's 2024 Annual Report
Click here to read more about the SSuRGe Team's 2024 achievements summary.