Godina izdanja: 2004
ISBN: 86-83543-35-8
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Edited by Phillip Flury, Miroslav Hadžić,
357 strana,24 cm, izdanje iz 2004. godine, mek povez, knjiga je na engleskom jeziku.

Sourcebook on Security Sector Reform, which was published by the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces and the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, is referred to the professors and students who deal with the reform of security and defense sector. In the Preface of the book, DCAF Deputy Director Philipp Fluri pointed out that the security sector, among all of the sectors of public policy, has the historically proven one of the most resistant to the public input. The right of the state to restrict certain fundamental human rights, according to the legitimate reasons for protection of the national security and public order, is recognised even in the international law. Also, the security reasons pose certain constraints on the types and amount of information which is released by the security sector institutions to the public. `States have also used reasons of national security as a justification for withholding information and avoiding accountability. Official secrecy, justified on the grounds of the national security, has been used to avoid political embarrassment and to cover up corruption or gross mismanagement of public affairs`, Fluri pointed out. The traditional secrecy and exclusiveness of the security domain has tended to constrain transparency, accountability and oversight of this most important sector.