The privatization of security refers to the increasingly popular trend whereby business entities provide military and security services that were once monopolized by the
Que dire du viol, de ce mal pernicieux qui ronge nos sociétés? Aujourd’hui, certains ivoiriens considèrent la lutte contre les Violences Basées sur le Genre, comme un effet de mode.
Unregulated privatization of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) poses many challenges to the attainment of African peace and security.
Although the militaries of developing states are willing to assist in peacekeeping operations they do not have enough resources and are unlikely to be successful.
In 2006, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) undertook a project entitled Regulation of the Private Security Sector in Africa that was supported by IDRC under project 103396.
In most South Asian contexts, formal and informal legal systems exist in parallel with overlapping powers. The informal judicial system, or customary practice, often guards the boundaries within which people interact with one another.