Dr Sarah Percy Awarded an ESRC Research Seminars Grant
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Dr Sarah Percy has been awarded a Research Seminars Grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with Prof Ian Loader (Criminology) for a seminar series, The New Economy of Security: Contemporary Insecurities and the Pluralization of Coercive Force`. The seminar series will begin on 1st September 2006.
The purpose of the seminar series is to explore the new economy of security` by examining four key changes in the way security is provided: the transition from state-provided security to security provided by the private sector; the growing indistinction between war and crime; the consequent blurring of lines between military and police operations; and the provision of security at subnational and transnational levels. The seminar series is interdisciplinary and designed to break down boundaries in the security field from several disciplinary perspectives.
There will be four seminars focused around one of the distinctions that is being eroded in the present - war and crime, police and military, state and market and national and sub-/trans-national. Further information is available.
Dr Sarah Percy is a Research Associate in the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War. Her research concerns mercenaries and the private security industry, and she is the author of The Norm Against Mercenaries (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) and a forthcoming Adelphi Paper entitled T he Regulation of the Private Security Industry.
