Professor joins global workshop on Public Security Index in Malaysia

Dr. Eboe Hutchful, co-founder of the African Security Sector Network (ASSN), participated in a “Civil Society and the Security Sector Training Workshop” organized by the Latin American Security and Defense Network (RESDAL) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from Aug. 4-6, 2019. The ASSN is a pan-African network of security sector reform experts established in 2003, with Hutchful having served as its first Chair and later as Executive Secretary.

The workshop brought together a small group of eight participants, including representatives from civil society organizations in Sri Lanka, Serbia, Iraq, Nigeria, and technical staff from RESDAL. The focus was on the mechanics of creating a Public Security Index, with RESDAL sharing insights from its experience in producing the "Comparative Atlas of Defense in Latin America and the Caribbean" and the "Public Security Index."

 

Discussions centered on RESDAL’s methodology and examined the feasibility of implementing a similar Public Security Index in other regions. The intimate, technical gathering allowed for in-depth exploration of how RESDAL’s approach to measuring public security could be adapted globally.