Private security companies and other private security service providers (PSCs) and environmental protection in jus post bellum : policy and regulatory challenges / Onita Das and Aneaka Kellay

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Document type:

Chapter

Title:

Private security companies and other private security service providers (PSCs) and environmental protection in jus post bellum : policy and regulatory challenges

Author zone:

Onita Das and Aneaka Kellay

In:

Environmental protection and transitions from conflict to peace

Editor:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017

Physical description:

p. 299-325

Languages:

English

Abstract:

A challenge to environmental protection and the jus post bellum framework is the rise in Private Security Companies and other Private Security Service Providers (PSCs). The marked increase in the outsourcing of vast amounts of operational and logistical work to PSCs have caused key issues around PSC oversight, regulation, and concern around civilian protection linked to environmental issues to arise. Using the Iraq (2003–11) and Afghanistan (2001–14) conflicts as examples, this chapter explores the growth of PSCs, their environmental performance, and reviews the adequacy of legal and policy frameworks that regulate PSCs to ensure the provision of adequate environmental protection as part of jus post bellum in order to contribute to sustainable peace. Areas of law explored include international humanitarian law, international human rights law, binding legislation and soft law specific to PSCs, contract litigation, corporate liability, state and non-state actor obligations in respect to PSCs, and shared responsibility.

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