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Foreword: ``Widening the Debate´´ and Raising Questions -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Chapter 1: Private Security Beyond Private Military and Security Companies: Exploring Diversity Within Private-Public Collabor... -- 1.1 Introduction to the Activities of the Non-Security Related Private Companies -- 1.2 What Is Outsourced to Private Companies Beyond PMSCs? -- 1.3 Conceptualizing Private Security Beyond PMSCs: Public-Private Partnerships -- 1.4 New Security Arrangements and Their Conceptualizations Beyond PPPs -- 1.5 Consequences of Security Provision Beyond PMSCs -- 1.6 Avenues for Future Research -- References -- Part I: Privatization of Security: Terminology, Concepts and Theories -- Chapter 2: Contributions of Private Businesses to the Provision of Security in the EU: Beyond Public-Private Partnerships -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Pluralization of Security: Challenges and Opportunities -- 2.3 Public-Private Partnerships: The Default Conceptualization? -- 2.4 Key Challenges of Security-Related Public-Private Partnerships -- 2.5 Resilience: The New Conceptualization? -- 2.6 Political Corporate Social Responsibility: The Overlooked Conceptualization? -- 2.7 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Who Am I? The Blurring of the Private Military and Security Company (PMSC) Category -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 PMSCs and Their Environment: A Co-Evolutionary Framework -- 3.2.1 Evolutionary Economics: Economic Fitness and Competitiveness -- 3.2.2 Sociological Institutionalism: Social Fitness and Legitimacy -- 3.2.3 Company Responses -- 3.3 Private Military and Security Companies Now and Then -- 3.3.1 Formation and Consolidation of the Industry (1998-2008) -- 3.3.2 The Post-Iraq and Afghanistan Phase (2008 Onwards) -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References

While widely considered a core pillar of the peace and security architecture, Security Sector Reform (SSR) is coming under fire. SSR theory and practice are criticized for being overly focused on traditional conflict and post-conflict settings and for being unable to adjust to unconventional settings marked by chronic crime and terrorism. SSR tends to be disproportionately focused on national institutions and less amenable to engaging at the subnational scale. Drawing on the experiences of so-called 'citizen security' measures in cities across Latin America and the Caribbean, this paper offers some opportunities for renewing and revitalizing SSR. The emphasis of citizen security interventions on multiple forms of insecurity, data-driven and evidence-informed prevention, the promotion of social cohesion and efficacy and designing crime prevention into the social and built environment are all insights that can positively reinforce comprehensive SSR measures in the 21st century

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