Private Military and Security Contractors
The Privatisation of Violence: An Examination of Private Military and Security Contractors and Their Effect on Sovereignty and Fundamental Rights in a Globalised World
... ensured that mercenaries and military entrepreneurs continued to play an important role. The eventual impetus for change came as a result of technological advances in warfare. As the mechanisation of war ...
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An "environment full of liability and negligence"? Domestic legislation of private military and security companies in Britain and the United States
... military contractors. These are valid questions, primarily since military contractors are not confined to a specific context of developed/less developed states or ...global security ...
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‘We don’t do that’: A constructivist perspective on the use and non-use of private military contractors by Denmark
... engaged security contractors – Denmark benefited, for instance, from the British organised private protection of Camp Bastian in Afghanistan by paying rent to the British government for the shared ...
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The regulation of private military and security services in the European Union: Current policies and future options
... A second problem has been the control over PMCs/PSCs, including their business structure, recruitment, training, equipment and services. 5 Most European and some developing countries, such as Afghanistan and Iraq, ...
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Blackwater Guilty Verdict Long Overdue
... the security-industrial complex in the last seven ...on private security in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2007 to ...points, private contractors outnumbered military personnel in ...
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Private military and security companies : options for regulation under human rights law
... during military and security ...A military investigation, which resulted in the publication of a report titled ‘’Tabuga Report’’, explicitly indicated the extensive sexual abuse and humiliating ...
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The political, legal and military implications of outsourcing to private military companies. Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 15, November 2010
... highest military commander’s intent (coincidentally, General Petraeus at the time) without reneging their contractual ...that contractors in the Area of Operations are not under direct control of the ...
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Private Military Companies and military reform: a case study of DynCorp in Liberia and MPRI in Bosnia and Herzegovina
... of security are transforming security into a private good (Branović, ...the military institution (Grant, 1998) as capital otherwise invested in public institutions is now diverted to the ...
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Private military companies in Africa : The dark horses of security outsourcing
... STTEP’s contractors also provided them with training on how to use the new military ...for Security Studies, ...Nigerian military by improving intelligence ...
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United States Foreign Policy and the Utilisation of Private Military and Security Companies in Colombia
... American Security noted that today the US Department of Defence (DoD) employs ...million military personnel and 770,000 civilian employees plus more than 800,000 part-time reserve personnel and that DoD ...
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The Lesser of the Two Evils: Addressing Challenges to the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations Through the Involvement of Private Military Security Companies
... wide-scale private sector integration into conventional, national intelligence ...intelligence contractors is commonplace, such as in the Defense Intelligence Agencies (DIA) where reports of private ...
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Public control of private military : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Defence and Strategic Studies), Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... traditional military obligations when fiscal opportunities provided by these evolutions, ...large private military companies to replace the disinterested and inadequate civilian ...of private ...
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Contracting for Stability: The Potential Use of Private Military Contractors as a United Nations Rapid-Reaction Force
... In June 2015, the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations established by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and chaired by former East Timor President José Ramos-Horta, published its comprehensive review of U.N. ...
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Private Military Contractors: Deploy or Avoid? Lessons from the ‘Blackwater Scandal’ in Iraq
... Alarmed by the fallout of the scandal, Blackwater announced on 21 July 2008 that it would refocus on its old expertise of private security training and assistance. It received hardly any new ‘soldiering’ ...
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Comparing privateering and private military companies
... of private military and security companies in armed conflicts around the ...(2017), private contractors outnumber ...these private military companies (PMCs) participating ...
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Influence of training on employee performance in the private security industry in kenya with a focus on private security guards in nairobi county
... to private security services and security objective of the study is to determine the influence of training on employee performance in the Private Security Industry in ...the ...
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... and private companies in this stry do not follow due process in the allocation of -term and short- The present situation in the country has shown that certain public procurements did not follow stipulated ...
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Humanitarian Law and Direct Participation in Hostilities by Private Contractors or Civilian Employees
... A civilian government employee or private contractor defending military personnel or military objectives from enemy attack direcdy participates in hostilities.. His or [r] ...
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War and Peace in Time and Space
... Military basing is not the only geography of American war. The most fundamental of all is that the very work of war itself—the killing of the enemy—happens far away. In contrast, during the Civil War, Drew Gilpin ...
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Ethical mind for public and private security personnel in the 21st century
... of security services and the minimization of human rights abuses depend on the establishment and acceptance of professional ethical principles (Cerrah, 2008) that the police should be equipped ...
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