Graduation Year
2021
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Politics and International Relations
Reader 1
Sumita Pahwa
Reader 2
MIETEK P BODUSZYNSKI
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Abstract
Despite the widespread persecution, harassment, imprisonment, and socioeconomic marginalization women, often Islamist women, faced during the Ben Ali regime from police and the internal security apparatus and the subsequent political organizing within the transitional justice process, substantive security sector reform (SSR) has not been implemented. Although there was initial progress on reforming the Ministry of Interior immediately after the fall of the Ben Ali regime and the IVD’s work on uncovering abuses, the combination of both the early political polarization and subsequent elite consensus between Ennahda and Nidaa Tounes, the rise of unregulated of police unions bolstered by the threat of terrorism, and the deemphasis on gender and independent accountability and oversight in foreign aid has impeded the political will for any meaningful security sector reform to occur, much less gender-based SSR.
Recommended Citation
Ho, Selina, "Barriers to Tunisia’s Gender-Based Security Sector Reform" (2021). Scripps Senior Theses. 1686.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1686
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
