Social dynamics of private security sector development in West Africa

Date
January 2024 to September 2025
Countries
Keywords
armed mobilizations
militias
vigilantism
Research fields
Law and Political Science

Over the past decade, armed conflicts have been on the rise in West Africa. In these scenarios, there is a growing utilization by states and economic actors of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSC). This project aims to explore how these private security firms embody a specific expansion of market logics as a modality of governance and the exercise of violence and moreover, how they represent a transnational dimension of security frameworks.