Palestine Territory review

The review on the current situation of SSR in the Palestinian Territories will be conducted, at the first instance, primarily through a desk study focusing on literature (research articles, studies and other publications), relevant UN resolutions and EU documents and other international agreements relating to the background of the Middle East Peace Process and in particular to the arrangements regarding the security arrangements in the Palestinian Territories. This phase will also include consultations with relevant (EU) experts, but this part will be conducted more thoroughly as part of Task 4.3. CMC Finland, who will prepare the review together with NUIM. The Palestinian Territories Review will comprise approximately 15 to 25 pages and include an introduction to the context (regional, the Palestinian Territories, and overall situation within the security sector), a baseline assessment that merited the EU engagement in this field and a presentation of the current SSR context (national security structures, arrangements and actors, as well as international support and actors to this field) with an overall assessment, based on the existing literature and official document, of the status of SSR in the Palestinian Territories.