Actores no estatales y externalización de las funciones militares en los conflictos armados: los contratistas privados ante el derecho internacional humanitario

The proliferation of non-state actors in contemporary armed conflicts is a challenge for the implementation of international humanitarian law. Among these actors, private contractors have taken on a special role for the tasks performed and the personnel deployed in conflict areas, to the extent that their presence has become almost indispensable. But this prominence is posing, among other problems, the need to define the legal regime to which they subject these companies and their personnel in order to end the legal uncertainty surrounding their activities. This situation has led in practice to have benefited from de facto impunity because of the difficulties for prosecution in cases of crimes committed during the provision of their services. Therefore, we must insist that there is no legal vacuum around these companies although at present there are no specific rules governing its activities. Indeed, international humanitarian law provides the appropriate legal framework to regulate the tasks carried out by these companies in armed conflicts. Although ius in bello not specifically regulate private military and security companies, nor the status of their personnel, contains rules and principles that define the rights and obligations of their employees, especially when providing armed services, and define the scope of their responsibility. Therefore, these companies must take steps to ensure compliance with these rules, because otherwise incur responsibility that extends to managers, directors and administrators.

• Fecha de publicación: 2015
• Institución: Universidad del Rosario
• Repositorio: Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/15717
• Acceso en línea: https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/15717
• Palabra clave: international humanitarian law; non-state actors; private contractors; Martens clause; command responsibility; derecho internacional humanitario; actores no estales; contratistas privados; cláusula Martens; responsabilidad del superior jerárquico; Droit international humanitaire; acteurs non étatiques; entrepreneurs privés; clause de Martens; responsabilité du supérieur hiérarchique.
• License: Derechos de autor 2015 Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional - ACDI