Study Guide SPECPOL
Study Guide SPECPOL
Study Guide SPECPOL
Decolonization Committee
BMUN'24
Chairs in prologue
Souha El Guerraj
[email protected] Nizar Oualid
[email protected]
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The impact on Security Economic and Political
and peace Implications
- PMSCs can make areas - Reasons why countries and
safer or more dangerous. companies use PMSCs (e.g.,
- PMSCs’ relationship with cost, flexibility).
local armies and the long- - Consequences on local
term effects on peace. politics and economies.
III.Position Paper: Writing process
3.Mercenary: A person hired to take part in armed conflict but is not a part of
the official military forces. Mercenaries are often motivated by financial gain
rather than political or ideological objectives.
4.Human rights: Rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex,
nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.
5.International Humanitarian Law (IHL): A set of rules that seek to limit the
effects of armed conflict for humanitarian reasons. IHL protects persons who
are not participating in the hostilities and restricts the means and methods of
warfare.
8. Security Sector Reform (SSR): the work undertaken by a government and its
people to make the country's security institutions serve its citizens by improving
the effectiveness and accountability of security institutions, including the
military, police, and PMSCs, to make them more capable of fulfilling their roles
without violating human rights.
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker
https://www.un.org/ssr/
https://www.dcaf.ch/sites/default/files/publications/document
s/DCAF_BKG_26_PrivateMilitarySecurityCompanies.pdf
https://www.policycenter.ma/sites/default/files/2
022-02/PB_08-22_Mquirmi.pdf
https://www.cmi.no/publications/6637-russian-use-of-private-
military-and-security
https://archive.globalpolicy.org/nations-a-states/private-
military-a-security-companies.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_military_c
ontractors
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/9-largest-private-military-
contractors-174024698.html?
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RULES TO FOLLOW FOR WRITING
YOUR POSITION PAPER