Security Praxis

Negotiating Peace with Militant Islam in the Sahel: Insights from the NIJAR Project

The sight of Al-Qaeda’s flag flying over Mali’s Bamako International Airport after the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) attack in late September highlights a stark reality: in Africa, the violence of militant Islamist groups has almost tripled over the last decade, making the continent one of the world’s most impacted by terrorism. While Burkina Faso loses nearly half of its territory to militant groups and Mali and Niger experience daily attacks, an authoritarian turn has gripped the ⋙

NIJAR, Islamism, Islamic State, critical terrorism studies, deradicalisation, Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Niger, al-Qaeda, JNIM

Research Highlights

Presentazione L’attivismo islamico nel Maghreb, di E. Sigillò, M. Ramaioli. SSSA 15/01

Presentazione del libro L’attivismo islamico nel Maghreb. Politiche e ideologie contemporanee, di Ester Sigillò e Massimo Ramaioli, ⋙

Presentazione volume Migrazione e governance digitale, Sant'Anna 18/12

Una riflessione collettiva sulle pressanti questioni teoriche e pratiche, giuridiche e politiche connesse al crescente utilizzo di dispositivi ⋙

The exception and the norm: political changes in Tunisia between local and global dynamics, Bologna, 19/12

Members of SPIRE, Security, Politics and International Relations, an international research unit, are participating in a conference called ⋙

Combat Cuties: the (self)weaponization of Israeli women soldiers’ image

• Disclaimer: This blog post adopts a critical perspective on tweets and online content that explicitly trivialize and hyper-sexualize women's bodies, essentially amounting to sexual harassment. It includes such ⋙

Fentanyl

The silent threat: Fentanyl's emerging impact on Europe

Introduction Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is distinguished by its exceptional potency—surpassing that of heroin by fiftyfold and morphine by a hundredfold. Its pronounced potency elevates the risk of overdose ⋙

Bangladesh

Bangladeshi Migration in the Mediterranean: Processes and Players

In 2024, EU statistics revealed a concerning trend: up until May, 4,537 Bangladeshi individuals had irregularly crossed the central Mediterranean route, marking the highest number of migrants from a ⋙

film

Reimagi(ni)ng the Resistance: the 2023 movie production

Looking back to the film production of 2023, I believe that we, as out-of-time film lovers, have to be happy for such a quantity of engaging and (politically) engaged movies. ⋙

Macedonia

Is the Sun (still) a star? North Macedonia 2024 elections and the EU integration process

Introduction In the early 2000s, when the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) became the first Balkan country to sign the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SSA), obtaining the candidate country ⋙

Libya

Insights from the workshop “Governance in Libya: political, economic and security challenges” 27 May, SSSA

Thirteen years of uncertainty, divisions, and local, regional, and international challenges marked Libya’s fragile governance of its unremitting conflicts. The workshop “Governance in Libya: political, economic and security challenges” ⋙

BDS

What is the point…?

How do we as educators tasked with creating and fostering active learning, critical thinking and civic engagement — the core aims of higher education institutions — continue our work in light of ⋙

Libya

Human Transit in the Central Mediterranean: Insights and Future Work from the SHUT-MED PRIN Project

Human mobility across the Central Mediterranean Route (CMR) is once again on the rise, and this phenomenon has significant political (securitization) and theoretical (securitization theory) implications. The project titled " ⋙

Captain America

Just a guy who fights bullies: Captain America and the use of force

“I don’t want to kill anyone. I don’t like bullies; I don’t care where they’re from”. Apparently, killing stereotypes is not Captain America’s (or Marvel’ ⋙