DCAF-/ˈdiˌkæf/; Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (French: Centre pour la gouvernance du secteur de la sécurité, Genève, German: Das Genfer Zentrum für die Gouvernanz des Sicherheitssektors) is an intergovernmental foundation-based think tank[1] that provides research and project support to states and international actors in improving security sector governance and reform (SSG and SSR).
DCAF was established in 2000 as the 'Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces' in the Canton of Geneva by the Swiss government and as of 2023 employs around 220 staff in 16 offices.
The Centre's founding mandate was to assist security institutions to reform themselves in ways that would help stabilize the fragile peace following the 1990s Balkans conflicts and during the democratic transitions of Central and Eastern Europe. At the time, ‘democratic control of armed and security forces' was considered a keystone of lasting peace and stability, under the OSCE's 1994 Code of Conduct on politico-military aspects of security.
The Centre was renamed 'DCAF – Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance' on 2 May 2019, and took on new branding.
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Sector Reform, Appendix A, p. 158. Roland Friedrich and Arnold Luethold, DCAF, 2007 Roland Friedrich, Arnold Luethold and Firas Milhem, The Security Sector...
(PDF). Geneva: Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF). ISBN 978-9292222864. SSR Paper 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8...
Sector Governance in Francophone West Africa: Realities and Opportunities,' DCAF/Lit Verlag, 2011. Cooper, Tom & Weinert, Peter (2010). African MiGs: Volume...
prohibiting alcohol and establish the hudud punishment for drinking". Libya - Dcaf Legal Databases. Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces...
PAPER 8. Geneva: Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF). p. 7. ISBN 9789292222864. Retrieved 3 February 2021. Alvaro 2000, p. 44...
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locations. The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) wrote in their 2005 report, Women in an Insecure World, that at a time when...
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largest Swiss companies. It is supported by over 130 companies to date. DCAF, the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, founded in...
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& N'Diaye (eds), 'Security Sector Governance in Francophone West Africa, DCAF, 2011, 207. État Major des Armees, Zones militaires Archived July 26, 2009...
Jane's Sentinel: Ukraine, 1994 Yuriy Yurchnya, 'The Armed Forces of Ukraine,' DCAF, 2010, 89. Andrew Duncan, 'Ukraine's forces find that change is good,' Jane's...
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