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The paper analyses the perils and benefits of outsourcing UN peacekeeping to private military companies (PMCs). Various PMCs have a proven capacity to perform at least some peacekeeping functions. Although experts have expressed serious doubts whether their capacity to do peacekeeping will always translate into the achievement of peace and security, the author contends that PMC peacekeeping should not be dismissed on ideological ormoral grounds when the choice is either a PMC operation or none at all. It is, however, imperative that the perils of using PMCs are addressed before peacekeeping is turned over to the private market. In particular, a set of clear mechanisms of accountability, control and transparency of the PMCs needs to be put in place. |
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Name: ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES
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| Bures, Oldrich. "Private Military Companies: A Second Best Peacekeeping Option?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008 <Not Available>. 2008-10-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p252936_index.html> |
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| Bures, O. , 2008-03-26 "Private Military Companies: A Second Best Peacekeeping Option?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2008-10-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p252936_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The paper analyses the perils and benefits of outsourcing UN peacekeeping to private military companies (PMCs). Various PMCs have a proven capacity to perform at least some peacekeeping functions. Although experts have expressed serious doubts whether their capacity to do peacekeeping will always translate into the achievement of peace and security, the author contends that PMC peacekeeping should not be dismissed on ideological ormoral grounds when the choice is either a PMC operation or none at all. It is, however, imperative that the perils of using PMCs are addressed before peacekeeping is turned over to the private market. In particular, a set of clear mechanisms of accountability, control and transparency of the PMCs needs to be put in place. |
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| Oldrich Bures Senior Lecturer Department of International Relations and European Studies Metropolitan University Prague Prokopova 16/100 Prague 3 130 00 Czech Republic Tel.: +420-221 411 121 Fax: +420-221 411 120 E-mail: o.bures@mup.cz obures@alumni.nd.edu Private Military Companies: A Second Best Peacekeeping Option?1 Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th Annual Convention BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES San Francisco CA March 26-29 2008 1 An shorter version of this text was published in International Peacekeeping 12 no. 4 (Winter 2005): |
| outside vetting of personnel; attachment of independent observer teams; and a requirement that PMCs’ personnel place themselves under the jurisdiction of international tribunals for any violations of the laws of war.70 Since none of these safeguards is available at the moment private military peacekeeping should only be used with extreme caution and in the medium-to-long run policy-makers should primarily focus on identifying those remedies that would ultimately eliminate the current need to make hard choices between PMC peacekeeping and |
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