DCAF and the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) co-organised an international seminar on good practices and international standards in the private security sector. Participants included representatives of regulatory bodies from Peru and Costa Rica, private security companies, and civil society.

The seminar provided practical recommendations on how to strengthen national regulation of private security companies based on international norms and good practices, as well as on how to strengthen the stockpile management of private security companies. Additionally, key findings of a DCAF-UNLIREC baseline study on private security companies in Latin America and the Caribbean were presented.