1.3: Security Cooperation and Reform

Help partners develop the capability to operate with us and other like-minded nations to protect peace, restore security, and when necessary, to fight and win wars.

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Responsible governments must be able to deal with threats within their own borders and address international problems in partnership with the United States and others. Crime, lawlessness, and armed violence impede economic growth, destroy human and physical capital, damage investment climates, and divert resources from productive uses. Through security cooperation, including arms transfers, we help partners develop the capability to operate with us and other like-minded nations to protect peace, restore security, and when necessary, to fight and win wars. Security sector reform enhances governments’ ability to deliver adequate security and responsive, transparent, and accountable government through the rule of law. We will develop and maintain effective security relationships with other countries and international organizations. We will build strong partnerships through robust political-military activities such as defense trade and export control regimes; arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and verification protocols; international treaties, alliances, and burden-sharing agreements; security assistance programs; international exercises; and active confidence-building measures. We will build the capacity of partners to counter regional threats. This will enable them to deploy to international peacekeeping and humanitarian relief operations, and to coalition warfighting and stabilization missions in the interest of delivering peace and security. We will support efforts to strengthen partner nations’ law enforcement, internal defense, and border and maritime security capabilities. An effective, accountable, and civilian-controlled security sector delivers a critical public service viewed as legitimate by the population it serves. We will support the professionalization and accountability of law enforcement institutions, including border security, and internal defense and military forces. With other donor nations, we will pursue a comprehensive approach to security sector reform in order to harness the capabilities of all interagency actors involved in such reforms.

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