Kateri Carmola
| Humanitarian Law & Policy:
Civilian Direct Participation in Hostilities, Classification of Conflicts, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Non-State Armed Groups, Private Military and Security Contractors, Public International Law, Terrorism and Counterterrorism |
Kateri Carmola is currently the director of the Carmola Consulting Group, which provides expert advice on law and compliance for the security sector. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and did her undergraduate work at the University of Chicago. She taught political science and international humanitarian law at Middlebury College from 2001-11, and joined PHAP in 2012.
During the last decade, she has published mainly on issues of law and warfare. Her book, Private Security Contractors in the Age of New Wars: Risk, Law, & Ethics (Routledge, 2010), analyzes the legal, ethical, and sociological issues surrounding the use of private military contractors worldwide. She has also published on the legal concept of proportionality, and the contrasting legal and risk cultures of the military and private security contractors.
Kateri has extensive teaching experience in a variety of areas related to international humanitarian law and conflict including courses on PMSCs, terrorism, transitional justice, international humanitarian law and the history of warfare in general. She has also participated in numerous forums on private security contracting, including most recently negotiations for the International Code of Conduct, in Montreux, Switzerland, and has taught military officers at both National Defense University and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.