The Jefferson Institute is an independent trans-Atlantic research and education institute.
We are inspired by Thomas Jefferson's challenge to pursue truth, wherever it may lead, and his vision of foreign policy at its best: to prevail through ideas and commerce.
Support decision makers in security sector reforms with innovative research and analysis to better identify strategic priorities, and the practical steps for success in policy and programming.
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Security
The Jefferson Institute supports decision makers in security sector reforms, to better face the challenges of modern threats. We deliver innovative research and analysis to better identify strategic priorities, and the practical steps for success in policy and programming.
We also work to build organizational, technological, and human capacity in the communities where we work to conduct and sustain strategic and operational research in support of the security sector.
Recent and Ongoing Projects:
Informing Decision: Support to the Serbia Strategic Research Institute
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2008
Building the Montenegro Ministry of Defense as a Model of Civilian Control
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2008
Digitizing the Serbia Military Historical Archive
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2008
Communicating Reform: Visual Identity of the Serbia MoD and Military
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2008
Participatory Crisis and Emergency Planning and the Serbia MoD
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2008
The Civil Protection System in Serbia
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2008
Research of historical perspective and present conditions in the civil protection system in Serbia, with a policy recommendations.
Informing Decision: Research Capacity for the SCG Ministry of Defence
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2005
The Serbia & Montenegro Ministry of Defence is slowly turning the political rhetoric of reform and civilian control of the armed forces into real steps. Sustained reform is unlikely without Ministry capacity to plan and react strategically - and strategic behavior demands informed decision makers. Yet, there is very little capacity in the Ministry for applied policy research and analysis to inform decision-making, and what capacity does exist is highly centralized, poorly managed, and ultimately of little operational value.
Between the Cracks: Balkan Cigarette Smuggling
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2004
Smuggling, trafficking and other forms of illicit trade have, in recent literature, mostly been analyzed as manifestations of state weakness or deviance. Aida Hozic turns this argument on its head. Smuggling is a game dependent on politically or juridically constituted transit zones where laws of territorial states are temporarily suspended. The management of these exceptions is the sign of a quite capable state, albeit one where legality and illegality are deeply intertwined.
Smuggling in the Southern Adriatic – A Community Case Study
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2003
Border communities are the deep line of defense against smuggling. However, these same communities are often involved in the smuggling themselves. If you want to mobilize a local community to resist smuggling weapons, first identify the smuggled commodity that they are ready to mobilize against (in this case, drugs). Nearly all commodities smuggled are via the same network, so mobilization against one commodity is mobilization against all.
