Nov 16, 2018 | Agenda, Impacts, News
CurrentAffairs Get InvolvedFollow usSubscribe Venue: Universitat de Barcelona, Edifici Históric, Aula Capella, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585 (Barcelona) Date/time: Open sessions: November 22nd 2018, from 9:00h to 18:30h Working Sessions (Closed-Door Meeting,...
Jul 31, 2018 | Impacts, Industry, Sin categoría
After the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions in 2003, observers both inside and outside the humanitarian aid community, started noticing an increasing interest of the private military and security sector in entering the humanitarian sphere.
Jul 31, 2018 | Accountability, Impacts, Industry
A context of structural and symbolic violence. Institutional racism focused on the control, surveillance, detention and expulsion of the people in movement
Nov 21, 2017 | Industry, News
The increasing allocation of government contracts to third-party, private firms in the military and security provision has not only generated an emerging market for defense products and services, but has also established some of the biggest transnational firms operating throughout various jurisdictions in a multiplicity of international contexts.
Nov 21, 2017 | Industry, News
Erik Prince, founder of the security company Blackwater Worldwide, now formerly known as Academi and belonging to the Constellis Group is currently the Chairman of the Frontier Services Group Ltd, a company defined as a provider of integrated security, logistics and insurance services for clients operating in frontier markets. In recent years, Prince has participated in the creation of Reflex Responses, a private army founded in August 2010.