Analysis: After Gaza, what price the Palestinian security sector?
10/11/2014
By Al-Shabaka
Al-Shabaka is an independent non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and foster public debate on Palestinian human rights and self-determination within the framework of international law.
This policy brief is authored by Sabrien Amrov, a research assistant in the Foreign Policy division of SETA, a Turkish think tank based in Ankara where she researches politics of the Levant, and Alaa Tartir, the Program Director of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network and a Palestinian writer and researcher who is working on a PhD at the London School of Economics.
Over the past decade the security sector has grown faster than any other part of the Palestinian Authority. More public servants are now employed in the security sector than in any other sector -- 44 percent of a total of 145,000 civil servants.
A growing number of "security science" schools and university programs have been created, including the Palestinian Center for Security Sector Studies in Jericho, considered the most prestigious in the West Bank, and thousands of Palestinians students travel abroad to receive "world class" security training.
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