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The Status Of Private Military Company Under The International Laws Of War

Posted on:2012-12-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S M ShangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166330335988354Subject:International law
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Private Military companies (Military Contractor, to specific/as PMC) is a rise in the early 1990s, legal entity. That is the essence of PMCS maximum profits and the understandable, but its special business model has exceeded the common economic level, impact to modern war law field. In recent years, as recent events, international society began to have happened to this industry give high attention. In people's impression, PMC and traditional mercenaries is identical concepts. Admittedly, PMC grasps the latter mercenary group, is always the traditional mercenaries, but because the emerging forms of international treaty regulating mercenaries: the four Geneva convention concerning the protection of victims in international armed conflicts of the additional protocol (first protocol) and "oppose recruiting, use, funding and training mercenaries to international convention, the definition of mercenaries harsh not suitable for PMC, combined business extends the new PMC contractor, this makes the legislation is difficult to international level of effective constraint PMC behavior.PMC conceived in after the end of the cold war global disarmament and reduce military spending under the background of the rise in military function, the privatization of philosophy is popular in 1990s, it involved in the modern war, and changed war organization both brings a lot of new legal problems. This paper defines PMC employees in international humanitarian law to determine the status in the war or armed conflict of rights and obligations in corresponding; Through discussing the homeland neutral position of the PMC contractor influence and their illegal ACTS to explore the main body of responsibility of traditional method of impact of war; And discussed the future international society to PMC phenomenon regulating the feasibility measures. The basic content including preface, text, endnotes of three sections including six chapters:The first chapter, namely "introduction". Introduces the background and the PMC rise in our country, the research development of the subject is aims at the very paper explain briefly the significance of writing this paper.The second chapter, namely "private military company (PMC) history and development". Introduces the origin and development course, PMC contractor and international industry wide PMC contractor positions taken to view.Chapter 3, namely "and the PMC contractor related legislation present situation of international law". Through the elaboration in the international level, PMC contractor legislation present situation and the intercontinental level through the case analysis of existing law, to the current international standard PMC contractor analysis.The fourth chapter, namely "several core problems" PMC contractor. In this chapter, the author mainly through four Angle to clarify the rise of modern war to PMC contractor the impact of law, it is respectively: "whether the behavior will destroy the PMC contractor homeland's neutral position", "PMC employees in international humanitarian law system status localization" and "PMC illegal behavior", "main body of responsibility in the current international law system framework PMC contractor status, the lack of" Chapter 5, namely "for the future war regulations system of outlook. PMC contractor The future war regulations system of the prospects of PMCS, suggesting to expand the United Nations special reporter regulatory mercenary, perfect for domestic scope of all countries, and the regulation in PMC contractor in the third quarter of this chapter to Monteux analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of documents.
Keywords/Search Tags:PMC, Mercenary, Law of War, Prisoner of War
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