UNDERSTANDING MERCENARIES – WAR, WAGNER, AND WHY WE SHOULD CARE

In Episode 10 of ICoCA’s podcast series ‘Future Security Trends, Implications for Human Rights’, we talk to Candace Rondeaux, Professor of Practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies and a Senior Fellow with the Center on the Future of War at Arizona State University about the rise of Russian mercenaries in various conflicts around the world. What’s driving the increasing prevalence of mercenaries, who are the Wagner group, and what, if anything, can be done to reign in these actors to ensure human rights and International humanitarian laws are respected?