International Peace Operations Association

For detail see the piece in the in-house magazine of what once upon a time used to be called the International Peace Operations Association, then changed to simply IPOA, and most recently renamed the International Stability Operations Association. In the “President's Message,” (p. 4) ISOA president ...

The meeting was put together by the International Peace Operations Association (IPOA), whose members are predominantly from the security industry. They include Triple Canopy, the company that took over Blackwater's contract in Iraq. IPOA's director came up with the idea for the “Haiti Summit” in the midst of their recent ...

A trade group representing military contractors and private security firms, the International Peace Operations Association, has launched a Web site for prospective clients, listing member companies offering their services in Haiti. Among them is Triple Canopy, a large private security firm that has operated ...

Almost immediately the International Peace Operations Association (IPOA), a well known trade group for private contractors, put up a new page on its website, listing those of its member companies “prepared to provide a wide variety of critical relief services to the earthquake's victims.” Some of the ...

Typical is the following statement by Doug Brooks, founder and president of the International Peace Operations Association trade association: “Contractors are cost effective. While the popular perception is of huge salaries for cushy jobs, the reality is that contractors live alongside military personnel and ...

The guests, dressed in business attire and the odd military uniform, were gathered for the annual summit of the International Peace Operations Association (IPOA), a trade group. Industry reps had traveled from as far as Dubai and Malta to discuss this year's topic—the Pentagon's newly established US Africa Command, ...

Doug Brooks, president of International Peace Operations Association, which represents private security contractors (though not Blackwater, which pulled out of the group in October), says in many parts of the world, "private companies are in fact holding peace operations together." The industry, in Brooks' ...

While its operators stand accused of firing indiscriminately on Iraqi civilians, killing 17 and wounding 24 in a September 16 shooting in Baghdad, Blackwater USA quietly withdrew its membership yesterday from the International Peace Operations Association (IPOA), a Washington, D.C.-based trade group ...

Last Wednesday afternoon, amid news that Blackwater USA security contractors had killed 11 Iraqi civilians and wounded 12 others in a Baghdad firefight, members of the antiwar group Code Pink gathered outside the Washington office of the International Peace Operations Association, a trade group that ...