The overall approach to Reform of Security Systems (RSS) in Africa links development with security and highlights three significant factors: first, the heterogeneous aspect of African conflicts; then the number of international actors concerned (including the OEEU, UE, UN, AU, France and the United Kingdom) and also national ones (which include civil and military ones, and those private and public); and finally the conditions needed for success of the reform. Because of these, RSS takes on several different forms and new processes on the way to democratisation, each having a link to one or more of these factors.