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  Focus on Private Military and Security Companies and humanitarian and development issues; otherwise, an important aspect in the debate about the convergence of security and development —Jared Lawyer was kind enough to highlight the need to draw more attention to this important yet under-researched area.  
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Indeed, there are many more articles that implicitly or explicitly adress the role played by PMCs and PSCs in security and development and their convergence. However, inasmuch as we want to assist you with your research, we want you to let us know which particular articles you consider require further dissemination. Please contact us

Abrahamsen, Rita, Collier, Paul, Dillon, Michael, Duffield, Mark, Hoeffler, Anke, and Williams, Michael C. The Globalization of Security. Briefing paper, Chatham House, London, October 2005. click here

• Cockayne, James. Commercial Security in Humanitarian and Post-Conflict Settings: An Exploratory Study. International Peace Academy, Research Reports, March 2006. click here

• Cockayne, James. After Blackwatergate: how humanitarians can help professionalize the global security industry. Human Security Bulletin, vol. 6, no. 3, March 2008: click here

Dokubo, C Q. Private military corporations and the sovereignty of African states. African Journal of International Affairs and Development, 2001, vol. 6 no. 2, pp. 57 - 81: click here

• Gantz, Peter H. The Private Sector’s Role in Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement. Refugees International Bulletin. 18 November 2003. http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/918

• International Alert. Humanitarian Action and Private Security Companies: Opening the Debate. By Tony Vaux, Chris Seiple, Greg Nakano and Koenraad Van Brabant. Research Paper. March 2002: click here

Lawyer, Jared F . Military Effectiveness and Economic Efficiency in Peacekeeping: Public Versus Private. Oxford Development Studies, March 2005, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 99-106: click here

Leander, Anna and Rens van Munster. Private Security Contractors in Darfur: Reflecting and Reinforcing Neo-Liberal Governmentality. CBS, Institute of Intercultural Communication and Management, Working Paper 82, 2006: click here

• Ortiz, Carlos. Private military contracting in weak states: Permeation or transgression of the new public management of security? African Security Review, vol. 17, no 2, 2008, 2-14: click here

• Renouf, Jean S. L'impact de la privatisation de la sécurité sur l'action humanitaire. La Revue Humanitaire de Medecins du Monde. No. 14: Logique d’urgence et pérennité: click here

- English translation by the author: click here

• Singer, P. W. Should humanitarians use private military services? Humanitarian Affairs Review. Summer 2004: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/LHON-6ACKX5?OpenDocument

Renou, Xavier. Private Military Companies Against Development. Oxford Development Studies, March 2005, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 107-15: click here

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