Degree Name
MA in Intercultural Service, Leadership, and Management
First Advisor
Jeff Unsicker
Abstract
Despite serious allegations of human rights abuses at the hands of U.S.-based private military contractors during the war in and occupation of Iraq, no effective system of oversight and accountability has been established over this industry. Meanwhile, the private military and security industry is expanding in unprecedented ways in regions of conflict throughout the world. For the past five years, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has been attempting to establish accountability over contractors for human rights abuses as co-counsel on a series of civil lawsuits against private military contractors. As CCR’s International Human Rights Education and Outreach Associate, I am responsible for developing a new advocacy project around this issue. This capstone paper examines the advocacy context and policy issue, discusses a strategy memo I developed to plan the project and offers an evaluation as well as lessons learned from this work.
Disciplines
Military, War, and Peace | Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation | Politics and Social Change
Recommended Citation
Raymond, Laura, "Ending Human Rights Abuses By Private Military Contractors: Developing An Advocacy Strategy Within A Multi-Issue Legal And Educational Organization" (2009). Capstone Collection. 1322.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/capstones/1322