Private military & security companies, conflict complexity, and peace duration: an empirical analysis

Elizabeth Radziszewski and Seden Akcinaroglu

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2020, vol. 31, issue 7-8, 1415-1440

Abstract: PMSC training has the potential to improve state capacity, reduce the combatants’ opportunity and willingness to fight, and prolong the duration of peace. However, the benefit of PMSC training-related intervention over other types of PMSC interventions depends on the level of conflict complexity. Analysis of novel data on PMSC interventions and peace episodes following major/minor civil wars (1990–2008) shows that in cases when PMSCs intervene, training makes a positive contribution to peace in wars with a limited number of rebel groups that do not resort to terrorism. Positive impact dissipates in conflicts with greater levels of rebel fragmentation and terrorist tactics.

Date: 2020
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