The absence of a specific international regulation on private military and security companies and its impacts

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: Guedes, Yasmin de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Palavras-chave em Português: Direito humanitário; Documento de Montreux; Empresas militares e de segurança privada; Humanitarian rights; ICoC; Montreux Document; Private military and security companies
• Link de acesso: https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/101/101131/tde-28042022-150305/

A lot has been debated about private security over the past decades, particularly regarding private military and security companies and their regulation. Even though they are not directly mentioned in any international documents on the subject, there is somehow a consensus that PMSCs must abide by humanitarian norms. However, the field still lacks a detailed and systematic description of the most relevant documents concerning PMSCs and humanitarian and human rights laws: the Montreux Document, the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers and the draft of a possible Convention on Private Military and Security Companies. This dissertation thus provides this definition and analyses the existing limitations on regulation and oversight derived from the absence of a specific regulation and the documents presented.