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CIAO DATE: 10/5/2006
Commercial Security in Humanitarian and Post-Conflict Settings: An Exploratory Study
Cockayne, James
September 2006
Abstract
The presence of between 15,000 and 30,000 security
contractors in post-war Iraq1 has drawn attention to the
increasing presence of commercial security providers in
humanitarian and post-conflict settings. Anecdotal
reports of this increased presence have been surfacing
for some time. In West Africa, private contractors have
been intimately involved in recent United Nations (UN),
ECOMOG (Economic Community of West African States
Monitoring Group), United Kingdom (UK), United States
(US) and French military interventions.2 In the Balkans,
multilaterally mandated civilian policing, protection
and border monitoring roles have on occasion been
outsourced to private security companies.3 And
worldwide, UN and non-governmental organization
(NGO) staff rely with increasing frequency on private
security guards to protect them and their property,
whether at home, at the office or in the field.4
