ABSTRACT Security Force Assistance (SFA)–the training and equipping of a foreign security
force–represent a common form of intervention into fragile states. This introduction assesses …

What role does business play in peace-building and conflict reduction? This special issue
tackles this complex question, exploring varied business efforts to bring peace through six …

The Sensation of Security explores how private security guards are a permanent,
conspicuous fixture of everyday life in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on long …

This book studies relevant actors and practices of conflict intervention by African regional
organizations and their intimate connection to space-making, addressing a major gap …

This book explains how security is organized from the local to the national level in post-war
Sierra Leone, and how external actors attempted to shape the field through security sector …

This article shows how peacekeeping experiences manifest in the Ghana Police Service's
(GPS) community policing strategies and practices in often inconspicuous and …

Private military and security companies (PMSCs) are increasingly contracted to provide
security in international peacekeeping missions. Yet, we know very little about the practical …

The notion that states pursue a monopoly over the use of force rings increasingly hollow.
From vigilantes that patrol the United States' southern border, to thugs for hire in China …

Racial profiling by the police is a common occurrence in many countries, and the racialized
constructions of threats underlying such policing practices can often be traced to histories of …

In this article, I show how the work of heterogeneous security and policing assemblages in
Nairobi hinges upon and reproduces physical urban borders, and consequentially enacts …