Privatization of Security: PMSCs and Beyond

Partner: Center for Security Studies, Metropolitan University Prague
Event date: Nov 28, 2014
Deadline for registering: Nov 23, 2014
Venue: Metropolitan University Prague, Prokopova Street 16, Prague 3, Czech Republic
Category: Conference

Sixth Annual Academics and Experts’ Conference

Privatization of Security: PMSCs and Beyond

November 28, 2014

The Center for Security Studies at Metropolitan University Prague (MUP) cordially invites you to attend its sixth annual conference for academics and practitioners that will take place at MUP in Prague on November 28, 2014. The conference will be held in English only. The full conference program is already available. Registrations for the public is open, please fill in a short on-line registration form to secure a place in the audience. There is no registration fee.

The conference will open with a keynote address entitled Private Security Studies: The Strange Story of the Establishment of an Academic Field delivered by Anna Leander (Copenhagen Business School). The subsequent 14 presentations delivered by scholars coming from European as well as non-European countries will probe both the challenges and opportunities related to privatization of security broadly speaking. In addition to presentations examining the numerous issues concerning the activities of private military and/or security companies (PMSCs), there will also be presentations that widen the existing debates on security privatization by looking at how and why an increasing number of private actors beyond PMSCs have to perform various security related functions.

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Keywords: Economic Security, Global Security, USA, EU, Czech Republic, Poland, Democracy, Human Rights, Africa, Europe