Abstract
On December 14, 1995, 4 years of brutal war in Bosnia came to an end when the parties to the conflict signed the Dayton Peace Agreement in Paris. As part of an International Police Task Force, which was created in accordance with the agreement, the private military company DynCorp went to Bosnia with the task to advise and monitor the local Bosnian police, especially on human rights. They were sent as peacekeepers, but as time progressed a vast group of DynCorp employees became involved in brutal sex trafficking of underage girls. This thesis tries to unravel how those peacekeepers designated to protect human rights, in fact, turn into the perpetrators who diminish dignity and rights.
The main research question of this thesis sounds as follows:
How can we explain the widespread transformation process of DynCorp employees from peacekeepers into perpetrators of sex trafficking and endeavoring a cover-up of the scandal during the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina? And to what extent can this transformation be explained by subunit analysis and a bidirectional approach?
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Cole, C., Vermeltfoort, R. (2018). Introduction. In: U.S. Government Contractors and Human Trafficking. SpringerBriefs in Criminology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70827-0_9
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