This report presents the four main themes that emerged from a seminar organized by the International Peace Academy (now the International Peace Institute) and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in Geneva on 29/30 November 2007. First, it addresses the question of the conceptual relationship...

Commercial security is increasingly present in humanitarian and post-conflict settings. The UN has even considered using commercial security to solve peacekeeping shortfalls. Yet using commercial security in these settings raises difficult ethical, operational and strategic questions. This...

On 17 September 2008, 17 states including the United States, UK, China, France, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and South Africa endorsed the lsquo;Montreux Document' affirming the legal obligations and describing good practices for states related to operations of private military and security...

In this Foreword to a Symposium on the newly established Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), the editor of the Symposium highlights innovations the STL offers, and challenges it may face to become a viable institution. He queries whether the STL was intended to be a cripple from birth....