ما بعد الانتقال : تحديات إصلاح القطاع الأمني في تونس

Abstract EN

This paper examines the challenges of security sector reform in post-transition Tunisia, the first Arab country have ignited the Arab popular uprisings in 2010, in an attempt to highlight the set of problems and dilemmas posed by this stumbling in the reform process on the path of democratic transition in the country.

So in view of the great role played by some security agencies in supporting the authoritarian Ben Ali' regime, this paper sheds light on the general characteristics of the actors in the Tunisian security sector during the Ben Ali era.

It then moves on to discuss the effectiveness and limitations of the post-transition security reforms, to explaining the stakes and prospects of security sector reform in Tunisia by considering the viable requirements and paths to improve security sector performance and restructuring it towards more of accountability, transparency and democratic civil control in a way that reflects a real change and a definite reform in Tunisia.