Decentralisation of Security Provisions and Citizenship. Community Policing in Mozambique and Ghana

The project explores how current state efforts to decentralise security provisions and include ordinary citizens in policing influence conditions of citizenship and state authority in transitional democracies. Specifically, it studies the implementation of community policing (CP) policies in Ghana and Mozambique. It looks into how such policies are influenced by different local and national political power configurations and what forms of citizenship the interaction between policing and politics produces.

The Post.Doc project is funded by Forskningsrådet for Samfund og Erhverv (FSE) and will run for

3 years.

DIIS researchers involved: Helene Maria Kyed.

Networks or partners involved: Centre for African Studies, Eduardo Mondlane University; Department of Social Studies, University of Ghana.

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