BOLSTERING CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT OF THE SECURITY SECTOR: PRACTITIONER PERSPECTIVES

Catherine Lena Kelly is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Justice and Rule of Law at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies. [...] Previously, Kelly was an Advisor in the Research, Evaluation, and Learning Division at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, where her work on judicial training and grassroots legal empowerment took her to Burundi, CAR, DRC, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Republic of Congo, and Rwanda to work with a range of national and local judicial officials, paralegals, and civil society. [...] He is a board member of the African Security Sector Network and of the Afro Asian Association for Justice Development and an expert member of the African Union Steering Committee on Security Sector Reform. [...] Under his stewardship APCOF has worked with among others the AU Department of Peace and Security to develop operational guidance notes on the developing codes of Conduct in the operationalization of the AU SSR framework, the Pan African Parliament on developing a model law for Police in Africa, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights on standards on the management of assemblies by law. [...] He has provided training to the East Africa Stand by Brigade Police component on the EAPCCO developed tools and in partnership with the Danish Demining Group translate rights-based tools on arrest and detention for the Federal and state level police in Somalia.