Call for papers: New Security Challenges: Organized Crime & Urban Confict in the Americas (Lima, październik 2018 r.)

Universidad del Pacífico Law School zaprasza na seminarium pt. "New Security Challenges: Organized Crime & Urban Confict in the Americas", które odbędzie się w dniach 24-26 października br. w Limie. Tematy, które interesują Organizatorów to:

• The lower threshold for the application of international humanitarian law, the classifcation of a situation as an armed confict or internal disturbance, and the legal strategies for the fght against organized crime.
• Rules of engagement in situations of urban confict and war in cities, particularly in counter-terrorism operations and the fght against organized crime, including in cases of armed confict.
• Understanding new organized criminal organizations in the Americas, including, but not limited to, the Colombian Bacrim, the Shining Path in the Peruvian VRAEM, the Brazilian PCC, Mara Salvatrucha, Los Zetas and other Mexican cartels, etc.
• Militarization of crime-fighting and its consequences, including the application of international humanitarian law in the context of the Americas, both at the national and international levels and its effect in the fght against organized crime.
• Problems caused by the use of private security contractors in the fght against crime or the conduct of hostilities.
• The humanitarian consequences of armed confict and organized crime on gender equality and vulnerable groups such as persons in situation of mobility, indigenous peoples, etc.
• Ways to promote dissemination of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law in the context of fighting organized crime in Latin America.

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