International Soft Law Initiatives: The Opportunities and Limitations of the Montreux Document, ICoC, and Security Operations Management System Standards

DeWinter-Schmitt, Rebecca

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66098-1_6

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“…The possibilities and pitfalls of PSC industry self-regulation have been important concerns in academic and practitioner debates. 25 Self-regulation 'exists when industry members jointly pursue regulatory or standard-setting activities in the absence of explicit legal requirements'. 26 Characteristic of self-regulation is voluntary membership and its extension beyond existing legal requirements.…”

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Choice, voice, and exit: Consumer power and the self-regulation of the private security industry

Krahmann

2016

Eur j.of int. secur.

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Promoting Private Security Company (PSC) self-regulation has become a key focus due to high profile scandals during the military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Related efforts include the Montreux Document, the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers (ICoC), American National Standards Institute/ASIS certification, and the new International Standards Organization (ISO) Management System Standard for Private Security Operations. Implicit in industry self-regulation, however, is the assumption that the consumers of private security services will help facilitate and enforce professional standards by shifting their custom to PSCs which have signed up to these codes of conduct or certification schemes. This article investigates the validity of this assumption with regard to government contracting. To what degree are public agencies able -and willing -to let professional standards guide their contracting behaviour? To answer this question, this article develops a general framework for the analysis of public consumer influence through choice, voice, and exit which draws on insights from microeconomics and Albert Hirschman's classical treatise Exit, Voice, Loyalty. Taking the United States government as an illustrative example, the analysis observes several obstacles to encouraging security industry self-regulation through consumer power.

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Choice, voice, and exit: Consumer power and the self-regulation of the private security industry

Krahmann

2016

Eur j.of int. secur.

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Certifying Private Security Companies: Effectively Ensuring the Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights?

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DeWinter-Schmitt²

2019

Bus. and hum. rights j.

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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 the adoption of specific assurance measures in the certification and oversight processes, the constructivist ‘tipping point’ resulting in the internalization of the corporate responsibility to respect may not be attained when there is inadequate norm compliance or, worse yet, norm regression.

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The regulation of private military and security companies: Analyzing power in multi-stakeholder initiatives

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International Soft Law Initiatives: The Opportunities and Limitations of the Montreux Document, ICoC, and Security Operations Management System Standards

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Choice, voice, and exit: Consumer power and the self-regulation of the private security industry

Choice, voice, and exit: Consumer power and the self-regulation of the private security industry

Certifying Private Security Companies: Effectively Ensuring the Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights?

The regulation of private military and security companies: Analyzing power in multi-stakeholder initiatives

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