Regulating sex in peace operations

Abstract

DynCorp is a large private military and security company that was contracted by the US Government to provide police trainers and advisers to the United Nations (UN) mission in Bosnia in the late 1990s (Simm 2013). Despite the company’s role in policing and training police, some employees were implicated in trafficking women and girls to Bosnia from Russia, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. At the time it was estimated that international personnel accounted for 30–40 per cent of clientele and approximately 70 per cent of the revenue from trafficking in Bosnia (Mendelson 2005). Media reports indicated