Posted on Friday 15th April 2011
Date: 28 April 2011
Venue: Charlemagne Building, Rue de la Loi, Brussels (by invitation only)
Programme
Organisers (from the EUI): Francesco Francioni , Christine Bakker
The EUI President, Josep Borrell, will open the final conference of the project Regulating the Privatization of “WAR”: the Role of the EU in assuring compliance with international humanitarian law and human rights (PRIV-WAR). The conference, which will be held in Brussels, is co-organized and hosted by the European Commission, DG Research and Innovation, and the European External Action Service.
The main results of the PRIV-WAR project will be presented. The project started in January 2008 and the research has been conducted by seven universities across Europe under the co-ordination of the EUI (Prof. Francesco Francioni, Scientific Director, with the assistance of Dr. Christine Bakker, Research Fellow at the Academy of European Law.) Moreover, a set of Recommendations for EU Regulatory Action in the Field of Private Military and Security Companies and their Services, as formulated by the project team, will be discussed.
The conference will bring together academics, representatives from EU institutions, other international organizations, EU member states, NGOs, the private military and security industry itself, as well as representatives of the US government, the most important state relying on private contractors.
The PRIV-WAR project has resulted in several publications, including the book War by Contract: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law and Private Contractors (F. Francioni and N. Ronzitti, eds, Oxford University Press, 2011), and a second volume will be published in early 2012. Other publications can be consulted on the project website .
With the presentation of its Recommendations, the PRIV-WAR project has added a policy-relevant aspect to its substantive academic output.
