Handbook for Military Support to Rule of Law and Security Sector Reform

The United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) Handbook for Military Support to Rule of Law and Security Sector Reform provides fundamental guidance, planning considerations, techniques, procedures, and other information for rule of law (ROL) issues that the joint force commander (JFC) and his staff may encounter in joint operation/campaign planning and in executing military operations such as theater security cooperation, foreign humanitarian assistance, stability operations, and peace operations. This handbook includes, within its definition of ROL, activities ranging across the functional spectrum of policing, management and oversight, and prisons; explains the interrelationship between ROL, governance, and security; and outlines the role of security sector reform (SSR) in building partner capacity to strengthen stability and ROL. Finally, this handbook provides a template to analyze the rule of law foundation essential to successful stability operations.