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Hyder GulamFinally, the fact that Australia’s closet ally, New Zealand, has undertaken domesticlegislation with a view to ratifying the UN Mercenary Convention should be impetusfor Australia to accede to this instrument. This is not mere Trans Tasman rivalry, butin the interest of humanity.Page 33The rise and rise of Private Military Companies
Hyder GulamConclusion:According to Goddard, PMCs are not a panacea to all interethnic and internecineconflicts. However, PMCs may represent an additional capability that can beselectively committed throughout the world, to effect and shape an enforced peacesettlement within modern conflict. 139 Goddard argues strongly that at the internationallevel, PMCs are lawful only because the existing definitions lack fidelity. PMCactions are being undertaken within a vacuum of effective regulation andaccountability at the international and national levels that is decidedly inappropriatefor the international realm in the twenty first century. 140Australia need not succumb to Machiavelli’s dire predictions noted at the start of thispaper. Adequate supervision and oversight can be provided for PMCs to mitigatedomestic and international concerns. Control and oversight can be maintained bydeploying an integrated military-diplomatic team with the PMC and by invitingexternal observers to monitor adherence by the corporation to internationalhumanitarian law standards. Agreements and contracts can be drafted to ensure theyare executed in compliant with international obligations. 141State inaction over the issue of PMCs may portend dire consequences for thefoundations of state authority. By anchoring control over violence to the private sectorand by shifting the relative importance of (state) institutions undermines the long-termauthority of the state. This act diminishes the significance of constructing statecontrolledarmed forces, by linking security and command over resources. 142 Australiacan take a proactive step in meeting the challenge of PMCs by implementing andactioning the recommendations posited by this thesis. As succinctly stated byMachiavelli, himself no stranger to the intrigues of politics and the world ofmercenaries:“The mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous, and if anyone supportshis state by the arms of mercenaries, he will never stand firm or sure, as they aredisunited, ambitious, without discipline, faithless, bold amongst friends, cowardlyamongst enemies, they have no fear of God, and keep no faith with men.”Machiavelli, The Prince 143139 Op cit, fn.24, p.11.140 ibid, p.iii.141 Op cit, fn.43 at 115-116.142 Op cit, fn.94, p.12.143 As cited in Laurie Nathan, ‘Trust Me I'm a Mercenary: The Lethal Danger of Mercenaries inAfrica’, Seminar on the `Privatisation' of Peacekeeping Institute for Security Studies, 20 February1997 http://ccrweb.ccr.uct.ac.za/staff_papers/laurie_merc.htmlPage 34The rise and rise of Private Military Companies
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