Buying Peace? Civil War Peace Duration and Private Military & Security Companies

Civil Wars ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Faulkner
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Military Security ◽  
Peace Duration ◽  
Security Companies

(Un-)bedingte Gleichheit nichtstaatlicher Gewaltakteure im Völkerrecht

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Finke
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
International Law ◽  
Private Security ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
Private Security Companies ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Security Companies

This analysis takes all relevant violent non-state actors into consideration instead of restricting the examination to just one. It takes a comparative angle to discuss whether terrorists, pirates, private security companies and civil war parties are treated coherently under public international law. Are civil war parties and private security companies treated similarly under international humanitarian law? How is the state’s right of self-defense affected if the aggressors are terrorists? What is the rationale behind the criminalisation of piracy? It concludes that all non-state actors should be subject to the same rules and regulations whenever they are engaged in military action with states. Whenever the objective is to vanquish a group of actors completely, a different treatment is warranted.

scholarly journals Military Counterintelligence Personnel of the White Army during the Civil War in Russia (1918-1920)

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 23-26
Author(s):  
Mikhail M. Stepanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Personnel Selection ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Personnel Policy ◽  
Trained Personnel ◽  
Military Security ◽  
The Military ◽  
Training Of Personnel ◽  
Selection Of

n the years of Civil War the military counter-intelligence of the White Army began to carry out political investigations and as a result its importance increased significantly. In this regard, the personnel of the military counter-intelligence agencies that directly ensured the security of the anti-Bolshevik state formations became particularly important. The conditions of the Civil War had a strong influence on it. The issues of selection, placement, training of personnel of military security agencies went beyond their sphere of activity and were of great importance for the construction of the entire white statehood. The following conclusions were drawn on the basis of this research: in the years of Civil War, military counterintelligence agencies experienced an acute shortage of professionally trained personnel; the main reasons for this were the need to staff the newly created military security agencies in the territories of white governments after their liquidation by the Soviet authorities and the significant expansion of counterintelligence staff in the years of Civil War; the personnel policy in the military security agencies included a politicised approach to personnel selection; the level of professional training of counter-intelligence personnel has significantly decreased; the selection of personnel for military security bodies was carried out haphazardly and situationally, in connection with which random people often entered their service.

Religion as a Peacemaker? Peace Duration after Ethnic Civil Wars

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Gurses ◽  
Nicolas Rost
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Opposition Group ◽  
Peace Duration ◽  
Durable Peace

AbstractWhat role does religion play in preventing civil war from recurring? Politicians have proposed that when warring groups share the same religion, achieving a durable peace will be easier. We test this hypothesis empirically using a large-nsample of all ethnic civil wars that began and ended between 1950 and 2006, and a measure of co-religiosity between the ethnic group in power and the main opposition group. The analysis shows that there is no positive relationship between co-religiosity and the duration of post-civil war peace, showing that sharing the same religion may not help to bring about peace following an ethnic civil war. To the contrary, the closer religious ties, the less likely it is that peace will last after the end of the conflict, and the higher the risk that conflict will recur.

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