Visual impressions from a field trip to Niger

Francesco Strazzari, Luca Raineri 06 January 2019 on Field, Niger, Agadez, Niamey, Sahara, mining, migrants

In november 2018 Luca Raineri and Francesco Strazzari conducted field research in Niger, spending three weeks between the capital Niamey and Agadez, ‘la belle du desert’. Without any ambition to build a consistent narrative, we publish some of the pictures that they captured while traveling, venturing into the country that internationals that they came across

Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación: a relentless growth?

Carla Di Franco 26 November 2018 on Crime, Mexico, cartels, CJNG, drug trafficking

(CC) Alex Lomix The Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) is a relatively new organized crime syndicate, which emerged in 2010 as an offshoot of the Milenio Cartel, part of the Sinaloa Cartel’s criminal federation. The Milenio Cartel did not survive to the power vacuum left by the death of the Sinaloa Cartel »

Insurgencies: interdisciplinary snapshots

by Giorgio Trichilo

On 24-25 September 2018 the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy, hosted a two-day…

Restorative justice and terrorism: resisting evil with non-evil?

by Brunilda Pali

The restorative justice approach has great potential in responding to terrorist acts, and the ensuing polarization, because it focuses on forms of political and pre-political communication, exchange and encounters that are able to allow ‘difficult’ but respectful conversations in societal space.…

Crimes of (dis) obedience: Radical shifting of the criminological gaze

by Brunilda Pali

The development and unification of criminology as a discipline, as a distinct terrain of…

Better together? Assessing cooperation between researchers, policy-makers and practitioners

by Elisa Lopez Lucia and Philipp Lottholz

(CC) Pedro Ribeiro Simões What are the connections between scholarly knowledge production on security…

Politics, conflict and criminality: firearms proliferation in Ukraine

by Francesco Buscemi and Katia Golovko

In June 2016, Grégoire Moutaux, a French national, was apprehended at one of the…

Education and language: global and local strategies of Sahelian jihadism

by Katia Golovko

Growing insecurity in the Sahel and especially in Central Mali and Northern Burkina Faso…

Barabbas' version: Analysis of a major terror attack in Rome, A.D. 64

by Mario Ragazzi

Our correspondent reports from the great city of the Caesars. A few months ago,…

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