Sandy Macleod
Biographic Data
| ID | 334320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandy Macleod |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandy |
| FAMILY NAME | Macleod |
| SIGNATURE | MACLEOD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1117-0430 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Private Military and Security Companies and Gendered Human Rights Challenges
It is well documented that the private military and security industry has the capacity to do great gendered harms to both those it encounters and those it employs. 1 Significantly, it is also a sector where a variety of human rights-based approaches, instruments and mechanisms have emerged beyond the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). 2 The International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers (ICoC) ad…
Certifying Private Security Companies
The key purpose of this article is to critically assess the extent to which auditing and certification to quality assurance and risk management standards containing human rights-related requirements are an adequate and effective means of ensuring that private security companies internalize their responsibility to respect human rights. Based on participant observation, interviews and publicly accessible data, it concludes that in the absence of th…
Reintegration, Hospitality and Hostility
Distant Voices is an ongoing, interdisciplinary collaborative action research project, drawing on criminology, community development, politics, practice-led research and songwriting to explore crime, punishment and reintegration through creative conversations that aim to challenge and unsettle understandings of and approaches to rehabilitation and reintegration. In this paper, we discuss some of the thinking behind the project and we reflect on o…
Prevalence of Ethanol Use Among Pregnant Women in Southwestern Uganda
EU Operations and Private Military Contractors
The European Union has developed its security competence since 1992, thus putting pressure on its Member States to provide troops for the increasing number of EU peace operations being deployed to different areas of the globe. But with national militaries being rationalized and contracted the EU will inevitably follow the lead of the US, the UK, and the UN and start to use Private Military Contractors to undertake some of the functions of peace o…
Impact of Antibiotic Administrative Restrictions on Trends in Antibiotic Resistance
Transnational Corporations
In terms of the New World Order, the largest Transnational Corporations (TNCs) are central players. They influence the policies of governments worldwide; they help to order the agenda of the World Trade Organization. They influence the destinies of individual economies in the developing world, they have a crucial impact on the eco-system, they set wage-levels, which can cause the first world to bend to their demands, and so on. Any constitutional…
Social science education as a component of medical training
Transnational Corporations
In terms of the New World Order, the largest Transnational Corporations (TNCs) are central players. They influence the policies of governments worldwide; they help to order the agenda of the World Trade Organization. They influence the destinies of individual economies in the developing world, they have a crucial impact on the eco-system, they set wage-levels, which can cause the first world to bend to their demands, and so on. Any constitutional…
EU Operations and Private Military Contractors
The European Union has developed its security competence since 1992, thus putting pressure on its Member States to provide troops for the increasing number of EU peace operations being deployed to different areas of the globe. But with national militaries being rationalized and contracted the EU will inevitably follow the lead of the US, the UK, and the UN and start to use Private Military Contractors to undertake some of the functions of peace o…
Social science education as a component of medical training
Private Military and Security Companies and Gendered Human Rights Challenges
It is well documented that the private military and security industry has the capacity to do great gendered harms to both those it encounters and those it employs. 1 Significantly, it is also a sector where a variety of human rights-based approaches, instruments and mechanisms have emerged beyond the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). 2 The International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers (ICoC) ad…
Reintegration, Hospitality and Hostility
Distant Voices is an ongoing, interdisciplinary collaborative action research project, drawing on criminology, community development, politics, practice-led research and songwriting to explore crime, punishment and reintegration through creative conversations that aim to challenge and unsettle understandings of and approaches to rehabilitation and reintegration. In this paper, we discuss some of the thinking behind the project and we reflect on o…
Social science education as a component of medical training
Transnational Corporations
In terms of the New World Order, the largest Transnational Corporations (TNCs) are central players. They influence the policies of governments worldwide; they help to order the agenda of the World Trade Organization. They influence the destinies of individual economies in the developing world, they have a crucial impact on the eco-system, they set wage-levels, which can cause the first world to bend to their demands, and so on. Any constitutional…
Impact of Antibiotic Administrative Restrictions on Trends in Antibiotic Resistance
EU Operations and Private Military Contractors
The European Union has developed its security competence since 1992, thus putting pressure on its Member States to provide troops for the increasing number of EU peace operations being deployed to different areas of the globe. But with national militaries being rationalized and contracted the EU will inevitably follow the lead of the US, the UK, and the UN and start to use Private Military Contractors to undertake some of the functions of peace o…
Prevalence of Ethanol Use Among Pregnant Women in Southwestern Uganda
Certifying Private Security Companies
The key purpose of this article is to critically assess the extent to which auditing and certification to quality assurance and risk management standards containing human rights-related requirements are an adequate and effective means of ensuring that private security companies internalize their responsibility to respect human rights. Based on participant observation, interviews and publicly accessible data, it concludes that in the absence of th…
Reintegration, Hospitality and Hostility
Distant Voices is an ongoing, interdisciplinary collaborative action research project, drawing on criminology, community development, politics, practice-led research and songwriting to explore crime, punishment and reintegration through creative conversations that aim to challenge and unsettle understandings of and approaches to rehabilitation and reintegration. In this paper, we discuss some of the thinking behind the project and we reflect on o…
Private Military and Security Companies and Gendered Human Rights Challenges
It is well documented that the private military and security industry has the capacity to do great gendered harms to both those it encounters and those it employs. 1 Significantly, it is also a sector where a variety of human rights-based approaches, instruments and mechanisms have emerged beyond the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). 2 The International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers (ICoC) ad…
Political science (6 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Accountability (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Human rights (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)