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Specialist Britany Slessman, 3rd Special Forces Group
(Airborne)/U.S. Army
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Recent RAND analysis of U.S. security sector assistance (SSA) to Africa shows a mixed record. For most of the past quarter-century, SSA has been highly inefficient, achieving no aggregate reduction in insurgencies or terrorism in the countries that received the assistance. But there is also evidence that, under the right conditions, SSA can reduce violence and human rights abuses.
The researchers provide recommendations that policymakers could make to SSA strategies, programs, and evaluations that could help the United States improve the outcomes of this assistance. They also identify five principles from the international development community that have particular relevance to building sustainable partner capacity.
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