Economic Security and Security Sector Reform
ity and create transparent and accountable systems for public
finance management. Ensure the existence of an effective
legislative and regulatory framework to govern property rights,
commerce, fiscal operations, and foreign direct investment.
2. Control Over the Illicit Economy and Economic-Based
Threats to Peace: Prevent illicit wealth from determining who
governs; prevent predatory actors from looting state resources;
reintegrate ex-combatants and provide them jobs and/or benefits; and manage natural resource wealth accountably.
3. Market Economy Sustainability: Enable the marketbased economy to thrive. Build or rehabilitate infrastructure;
strengthen the private sector and the supporting human capital
and financial sectors.
4. Employment Generation: Create job opportunities to yield
quick impact and demonstrate progress employing militaryage youths. Establish a foundation for sustainable livelihoods,
including rehabilitation of the agricultural sector.!
The second model, shown below, considers how interdependent
economic capacity building systems can support achievement of
the necessary conditions described in the model above. These
four necessary conditions appear as ovals around the perimeter
of the diagram below. By helping achieve these necessary conditions, the model also suggests that interdependent economic
capacity building systems can support the foci of Security Sector Reform posited in Dr. Yarger’s lead article: sustainability,
capacity-building, and resilience. The key to success is for host
nation people to become capable of managing these capacity
building systems and to engage their entire community network
to make their efforts effective, sustainable, and resilient.
As highlighted by its central position in the diagram on the previous page, the host nation’s Human Capacity Building system
is crucial for achieving a sustainable economy and has a direct
impact on all other supporting capacity building systems. Host
COMMUNITY NETWORK MODEL FOR BUILDING HUMAN CAPACITY
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