Inter-Parliamentary Forum on Security Sector Governance in Southeast Asia 9th Workshop on "Justice Reform in Southeast Asian Countries: What Role for Parliaments?", 17-18 September 2011 - Phnom Penh, Cambodia

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Office for Cooperation in Asia, together with the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), will organize the 9th workshop of the Inter-Parliamentary Forum on Security Sector Governance (IPF-SSG) in Southeast Asia. The Forum promotes ongoing dialogue and exchange of good practices among parliamentarians in Southeast Asian countries. The Forum aims at enhancing civilian oversight and national parliamentary involvement in security sector governance.

The Forum’s 9th workshop will focus on justice reform as an important aspect of security sector governance in Southeast Asia. Justice reform refers to all activities aimed at improving the governance of the justice sector, particularly the accessibility, accountability, transparency and the effectiveness of the sector. The workshop will examine the current state of justice reform in Southeast Asia and explore how parliaments can contribute to the reform processes in their own countries. Furthermore, it aims at sharing good practices of various approaches to and strategies for justice reform while at the same time keeping in mind the specific requirements of national and regional contexts.

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