The increasing involvement of private security and military companies in scenarios of international and non-international armed conflict requires an accurate determination of their status under international humanitarian law. Every employee of such a company who is deployed to an environment of armed conflict is extremely vulnerable to becoming a victim of belligerent action. Moreover, as far as they are authorized to carry arms or to work as contractors alongside the armed forces of a party to the conflict, they run a high risk of violating the law of armed conflict themselves. © 2007 VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden.
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Schaller, C. (2007). Private security and military companies under the international law of armed conflict. In Private Military and Security Companies: Chances, Problems, Pitfalls and Prospects (pp. 345–360). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90313-2_22
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