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GSG Gurkha Security Guards, Ltd. GURN Government of Unity and National Reconciliation HRW/A Human Rights Watch (Africa) ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross IDAS International Defence and Security, Ltd. IFOR Implementation Force IMF International Monetary Fund ISC International Security Consultants JHQ Joint Headquarters JPMC Joint Political-Military Commission KMS Keeny-Meeny Services MISAB Inter-African Mission to Monitor the Implementation of the Bangui Agreements MK Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) MNF Multinational Force MPLA Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) MPRI Military Professional Resources, Incorporated MPWD Maggie Peacock Working Dogs Limited MSP Military Stabilisation Program MTS Military Technical Services NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation NCACC National Conventional Arms Control Committee NCO Non-commissioned Officer NEC National Electoral Commission NGO non-governmental organisation NPFL National Patriotic Front of Liberia NPRC National Provisional Ruling Council OAU Organisation of African Unity ONUMOZ United Nations Operation in Mozambique OSCE Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe PDD Presidential Decision Directive PESC public enterprise security companies PNG Papau New Guinea PSI private security industry RDMHQ Rapidly Deployable Mission Headquarters RECAMP Renforcement des capacités africaines de maintien de la paix (Reinforcement of African Peacekeeping Capabilities) RENAMO National Resistance Movement of Mozambique ROTC Reserve Officer Training Corps RPF Rwandan Patriotic Front RSLMF Republic of Sierra Leone Military Forces RUF Revolutionary United Front SAAF South African Air Force SADC Southern African Development Community SADF South African Defence Force (before April 1994)
SANDF South African National Defence Force (after April 1994) SAP South African Police (before April 1994) SAPS South African Police Service (after April 1994) SAS Special Air Service SDM Sociedada de Desenvolvimento Mineiro de Angola (Mining Development Society of Angola) SFOR Stabilisation Force SGS Special Gurkha Services, Ltd. SHIRBRIG Standby High Readiness Brigade SIPRI Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SLPP Sierra Leone People’s Party SPS Special Project Service Ltd. SRC Strategic Resources Corporation SRL Sierra Rutile Lit. TeleServices Tele Service Sociedade de Telecomunicaçoes, Segurança e Servicos ULIMO United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy ULIMO-J United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (Roosevelt Johnson faction) ULIMO-K United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (Alhaji Kromah faction) UN United Nations UNAMIR United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda UNAVEM United Nations Angola Verification Mission UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNITA União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) UNITAF Unified Task Force (Somalia) UNMOGIP United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan UNOMIL United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia UNOSOM United Nations Operation in Somalia UNPROFOR United Nations Protection Force UNRISD United Nations Research Institute for Social Development UNTSO United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation UXO Unexploded Ordnance VORGAN AVoz Resistencia do Gala Negro (Voice of the Black Cockerel) WHO World Health Organisation
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Page 5 and 6: Preface The papers on which this bo
Page 7 and 8: Current status The global security
Page 9 and 10: In neighbouring Uganda, Saracen Uga
Page 11 and 12: exploring for mineral deposits. Fro
Page 13 and 14: impact of such experiences on parti
Page 15 and 16: Chapter 2: Africa, military downsiz
Page 17 and 18: Executive Outcomes, Military Profes
Page 19 and 20: if only as credits that were writte
Page 21 and 22: agreements sanctifying the arbitrar
Page 23 and 24: longer be dealt with as an isolated
Page 25 and 26: The organisation of security in wea
Page 27 and 28: The final addition to the potential
Page 29 and 30: the early 20th century. Finally, th
Page 31 and 32: The PSI is not a capital-intensive
Page 33 and 34: high risk profession in Moscow. The
Page 35 and 36: supranational actors which labour i
Page 37 and 38: 10 Two timeseries taken from SIPRI
Page 39 and 40: 56 E A Hills, op. cit., p. 340. 57
Page 41 and 42: Chapter 3: The crisis in external r
Page 43 and 44: community. So do individuals such a
Page 45 and 46: Humanitarian assistance also has a
Page 47 and 48: operation, two US helicopters were
Page 49 and 50: The inability of the international
Page 51 and 52: have sent to the Republic of Congo
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and Sierra Leone (as ECOMOG became
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The main thrust of both the British
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Despite the failure of the Canadian
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“[t]he burden of caring is being
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services related to humanitarian de
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that such arrangements or agencies
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Turning to Africa, and some other p
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The control exercised by the coloni
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the denial of concomitant status to
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their reliance on the vagaries of a
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On the domestic front, the politica
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circumstances. In Western history,
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Increasingly, African kin groups fi
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African states could no longer rely
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29 Laakso & Olukoshi, op. cit., p.
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the shadow of the cold war will pro
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mercenary army. 4 Interestingly, th
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This article will show how EO start
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Buckingham told the mercenaries tha
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1 Ranger Oil 2 Premier Consolidated
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to EO. The group’s aviation firm,
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Friedland had hit an unexpected jac
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Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) o
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Phase 5: Recent developments and re
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Military contracts of the type depl
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well-illustrated by the EO promotio
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Corporate contracts While deployed
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torn state, but does not have the m
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security officials at the Debswana
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49 K Silverstein, Privatizing War:
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Chapter 6: The military as business
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etween domestic and international b
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1991 and Bosnian Croat forces fough
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armoured personnel carriers, fiftee
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MPRI has also been contracted to as
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There is undoubtedly a legitimate p
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Chapter 7: Gurkhas and the private
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for many years seeing Hong Kong, Br
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Mozambique: The Lonrho connection T
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Between July and December 1994, GSG
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“It was morning time. We were lis
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in Laos and two in Angola. The comp
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country. The contract was never con
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GSG’s specialisation in deploying
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44 J Sambona, British Mercenaries S
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Chapter 8: Angola - A case study of
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the warring parties. This answer mu
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had supported UNITA since 1985, nor
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total external debt, as a percentag
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These mercenaries were unable to as
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Executive Outcomes in Angola Did EO
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the end of October 1992 and the cea
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about 1 500 in Lobito, as a result
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contribution to the resolution of t
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could facilitate resolution of the
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The government therefore refused to
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is every reason to believe that the
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Composition of government spending
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December 1998, thereby formally beg
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33 The 1977 Additional Protocol I t
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as a building block for national un
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99 According to the estimates of HR
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Chapter 9: Fighting for diamonds -
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The manifesto of the RUF called, in
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With the RUF literally knocking on
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Course schedule for training in Sie
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the RSLMF elements involved, suffer
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elections should be postponed. If t
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officers whose illicit diamond trad
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with financing from concession hold
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estoration of democracy in Sierra L
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of EO and then Sandline, were force
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fighting as the rebels pushed the E
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The situation in which the governme
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pressed into service); Standbys (pr
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Chapter 10: Private security and in
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should be judged under humanitarian
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government is accused of ‘selling
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Indeed, the Court had specified muc
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(Fundamental guarantees), Article 5
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Private security is an increasingly
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exercise the prerogatives of the go
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However, several countries of the f
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licence or other approval that Cong
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the ICRC views as undesirable. Depe
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Conclusion The expansion of private
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9 Protocol I of 8 June 1977 additio
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33 The role which the International
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Chapter 11: Africa - From the priva
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large multinational companies opera
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The current fashion of privatising
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ebels halt the famous Dakar rally d
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Kadir Jasin, writing in Malaysia’
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etween Military Professional Resour
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of motivation, a more effective def
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security …” and blamed the coll
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developed world can regulate privat
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supporting the missions of such org
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