Building on sand? Australian police involvement in international police capacity building
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12363258 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vandra Harris Agisilaou (0000-0001-5474-7749, corresponding author), Vandra Harris (a Law School , Flinders University , GPO Box 2100, Adelaide , SA , 5001 , Australia) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-98 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policing & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1043-9463 • E-ISSN: 1477-2728 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10439461003611492 |
| OpenAlex | W2058819729 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper considers the experiences of Australian police personnel deployed within international missions to Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. The role of Australian police in each of these diverse missions has included both in-line policing and capacity building of local police, with a view to strengthening national police services and ensuring their sustainability. The paper examines Australian police officers' understanding of capacity building and their attitudes towards local counterparts, and how this feeds into the ability of the missions to build up police forces in those countries. Through this investigation the paper considers how the Australian police on these missions contribute to development, transitional justice and regional stability, concluding that Australian police have a good grasp of the concept of capacity building either do not have a necessarily positive view of their counterparts' capacity or see themselves in the context of a broader system. This provides lessons for both Australian police and other nations involved in international capacity building operations
Capacity building · Context (archaeology · Criminal justice · Economic Justice · Geography · New guinea · Police science · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Sustainability · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration
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Capacity-Building
Systemic capacity building
Police-Building in Weak States
Policebuilding
Looking for a few good cops
Gendering Transnational Policing
Police capacity development in the Pacific
Community capacity-building
The irrelevance of development studies
Building State Failure in East Timor
The Capacity-building Paradox
Capacity building
Promoting Democratic Governance and Preventing the Recurrence of Conflict
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |