Local dynamics of security in Africa

The Central African Republic and private security

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12337658
AutoresMarco Boggero (Carrier (United States), autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen17
Número2
Páginas15-27
Fecha de publicación2008-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAfrican Security Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1024-6029 • E-ISSN: 2154-0128
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10246029.2008.9627468
OpenAlexW2508819990
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas16

In the Central African Republic, successive rebellions and unstable governments have created a palpable sense of insecurity for decades, which often seemed to require outside solutions. In this issue of the African Security Review the relevance, to the outside world, of African responses to the challenges of peace and security is explored and this article contains a survey of the local private security sector in the Central African Republic as a local response to the challenges of security. The author presents some evidence about how private security companies operate in the field and reveal interesting findings on the growth of one local sector. He also discusses some of the relationships between private and public provision of security in the local context. This work is based on fieldwork and secondary literature; it is part of wider research on how the private security industry operates in the sub-regional context that includes Darfur, Chad and the Central African Republic

Development economics · Dynamics (music · Economics · Economy · Political science · Private security · Security studies · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Military and Defense Studies · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration