Policy Panel: Plural Policing in the Global South: Navigating hybridity and security partnerships

Session Submission Type: Policy Panel

Abstract/Description

The presentations in this panel will explore case studies from Global South contexts to show how plural policing is negotiated and navigated. They will highlight variances in law and order maintenance arrangements, primarily in contexts where state policing is recognised as an adapted colonial import that exists alongside local and indigenous governance mechanisms, which at times exist parallel or in conflict with each other. It will explore issues of globalisation, legitimacy, hybridity, plurality, security privatisation and non-conformity with colonial ideas about policing in former colonies. Each presentation will provide insight into scholarly acknowledgement of an ideological shift away from the recognition of state police serving as the sole stakeholder organisation with a responsibility for maintaining law, order and peaceful communities across diverse spaces in the Global South context. They will further highlight the importance of understandings of plural policing mechanisms to larger discussions about security governance in the Global South.

Sub Unit

• Area XX. Policy Panels

Individual Presentations

• The Shadow Police: Examining the State of Mexico’s Hybrid Police Forces - Logan Puck, George Washington University

• Plural Policing and Policing Pluralism in Contemporary Papua New Guinea - Sinclair Dinnen, Australian National University

• Plural Regulatory Systems and Access to Justice in Small Island Developing States – A Tuvalu Case Study - Danielle Watson, Queensland University of Technology; Sara N. Amin, University of the South Pacific; Tanya Trussler, Mount Royal University

• Plural Policing in Ivory Coast: Negotiating Security, Order, and Legitimacy - Francis Boateng, University of Mississippi; Daniel Pryce, Old Dominion University; Nabi Y. Doumbia, University Félix Houphouet-Boigny

• Reflections on the Impact of Stakeholder involvement in policing efforts: Perspectives from police officers in the Hearts and Minds Programme - Casandra Harry, University of Trinidad and Tobago