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Article

19 Jan 2009

Author:
David Isenberg, United Press International

Dogs of War: Codes of conduct -- trust but verify

Regulation of an industry takes many different forms. There are outright laws and regulations, official standards, governmental monitoring agencies and internal rules...Sometimes it works well. And sometimes it fails…One part of regulation is voluntary…The private military industry…has codes of conduct. They generally aim to obligate private military firms to comply with human-rights principles and international humanitarian law…The question is, should we be reassured by codes of conduct? Not completely, according to the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. A recent paper, "Codes of Conduct: Tool for Self-Regulation for Private Military and Security Companies," finds such codes could be quite useful, but more needs to be done…[Refers to KBR, Blackwater, Omniplex, CACI, VT group, Greystone]