Greater accountability will boost performance and make policing more responsive to local people

The police need to be made more accountable to local people to improve their performance and make them more responsive to local communities. In a new report published today by the Institute for Public Policy Research, which comes ahead of the Government’s Green Paper on Police Reform expected later this month, ippr says that a lack of local accountability is undermining police effectiveness.

By IPPR, USA.

Governance Policy Resource.

Preparing for the worst

What is resilience, why does it matter and what should we do about it? The Cabinet Office has defined resilience as ‘the ability at every relevant level to detect, prevent, and, if necessary to handle and recover from disruptive challenges’. By Ian Kearns

By IPPR, USA.

Governance Policy Resource.

Aegis launches genocide education programme in Rwanda

This week, thousands of young Rwandans marched to the Kigali Memorial Centre to commemorate the 1994 genocide and to take part with their elders in the launch of a nation-wide education programme to “rescue traditional values lost in the genocide” as a way to reduce the chances of a repeat of the mass murder.

By Aegis Trust, UK.

Humanitarian Intervention Policy Resource.

We must beef up the UN and the EU

Globalisation, if left unmanaged, is a threat to Britain's national security. This is a bald statement, but it is true, and we would be better off as a country if its veracity were more widely accepted and its implications more fully understood. Globalisation may have brought huge benefits to millions of people around the world but it has simultaneously exposed us to new hazards that we are not well placed to meet. We need a new approach aimed squarely at the management of a world in which power is slipping beyond the control of states.

By IPPR, UK.

Governance Policy Resource.