Police in the Development Space

Australia's international police capacity builders

Bibliographic Data

ID11186706
AuthorsVandra Harris Agisilaou (0000-0001-5474-7749, RMIT University, corresponding author), Vandra Harris, Andrew Goldsmith (0000-0002-2791-9119, University of Wollongong)
Year2012
Volume33
Issue6
Pages1019-1036
Publication date2012-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThird World Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0143-6597 • E-ISSN: 1360-2241
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01436597.2012.681492
OpenAlexW2140814018
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited12

International police now contribute the second largest proportion of personnel to peacekeeping missions after militaries. They are thus key contributors to post-conflict transitions in developing countries. In the past decade Australian police have played a major role in a range of international missions in the Asia-Pacific region, partially funded by Australia's international development budget. Increasingly the Australian Federal Police, as Australia's lead agency in this area, has explicitly adopted the development language of capacity building to describe a significant part of their role. This paper considers the contribution of Australian police to building or developing the capacity of new and/or re-formed police forces following conflict. It also examines the degree to which international police missions are able to contribute to broader development goals and achievements within these settings. In doing so, it engages with the question of 'outsiders' (non-development professionals) performing development work in the increasingly populated space of post-conflict recovery and reconstruction

Capacity development · Environmental planning · Geography · Political science · Space (punctuation) · Computer Science · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Peacebuilding and International Security · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Public Administration

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