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

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

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. ⋙

  • Brunilda Pali
    Brunilda Pali
Brunilda Pali 11 Oct 2018 • 9 min read
Crimes of (dis) obedience: Radical shifting of the criminological gaze
Debate

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

The development and unification of criminology as a discipline, as a distinct terrain of study and knowledge complex has mostly revolved and condensed around two interrelated focuses: 1. legally defined ⋙

  • Brunilda Pali
    Brunilda Pali
Brunilda Pali 1 Oct 2018 • 10 min read
Better together? Assessing cooperation between researchers, policy-makers and practitioners
participation

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

(CC) Pedro Ribeiro Simões What are the connections between scholarly knowledge production on security on the one hand and security expertise, policy-making and practices on the other? Under what conditions ⋙

  • Elisa Lopez Lucia
  • Philipp Lottholz
Elisa Lopez Lucia, Philipp Lottholz 20 Sep 2018 • 8 min read
Politics, conflict and criminality: firearms proliferation in Ukraine
Field

Politics, conflict and criminality: firearms proliferation in Ukraine

In June 2016, Grégoire Moutaux, a French national, was apprehended at one of the Ukrainian-Polish border crossing points while trying to smuggle 5 AK-pattern assault rifles, thousands of bullets, 2 ⋙

  • Francesco Buscemi
  • Katia Golovko
Francesco Buscemi, Katia Golovko 31 May 2018 • 9 min read
Education and language: global and local strategies of Sahelian jihadism
Debate

Education and language: global and local strategies of Sahelian jihadism

Growing insecurity in the Sahel and especially in Central Mali and Northern Burkina Faso is characterized by lack of control of the central government over big parts of the country& ⋙

  • Katia Golovko
Katia Golovko 3 May 2018 • 8 min read
Barabbas' version: Analysis of a major terror attack in Rome, A.D. 64
Culture

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

Our correspondent reports from the great city of the Caesars. A few months ago, on 19th July of the tenth year of divus Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, DCCCXVII a. ⋙

  • Mario Ragazzi
Mario Ragazzi 28 Mar 2018 • 10 min read
Mutually Constitutive State-building Processes in the Borderlands of Myanmar
Debate

Mutually Constitutive State-building Processes in the Borderlands of Myanmar

Myanmar arguably hosts one of the largest concentrations of state-repelling ethnic minorities. Nevertheless, with the gradual occupation, co-optation and articulation of physical and social spaces and structures by central authorities, ⋙

  • Francesco Buscemi
Francesco Buscemi 15 Mar 2018 • 7 min read
The Unbearable Lightness of R2P: The Rohingya Case
Debate

The Unbearable Lightness of R2P: The Rohingya Case

The sterile current debate about the ‘responsibility to protect’ the Rohingya minority highlights one of the aporias of the contemporary national politico-legal frameworks: the rupture between citizenship and nude humanness. ⋙

  • Igor Milić
Igor Milić 3 Mar 2018 • 6 min read
Cyber and Human Vulnerabilities: Who Is the Ethical Hacker and Why Should We Care
Debate

Cyber and Human Vulnerabilities: Who Is the Ethical Hacker and Why Should We Care

Cyber and human vulnerabilities are mutually dependent and the so-called ethical hackers seem the best solution for firms and governments to cope with cyber threats. However, the hackers’ technical skills ⋙

  • Anita Biscaro
Anita Biscaro 22 Feb 2018 • 7 min read
Researchers at risk in Central Asia (part II)
Field

Researchers at risk in Central Asia (part II)

Researcher safety in peace, conflict and security studies in Central Asia and beyond: Making sense and finding new ways forward. The safety of researchers is a pressing issue, with ever ⋙

  • Philipp Lottholz
Philipp Lottholz 19 Jan 2018 • 7 min read
Researchers at risk in Central Asia (part I)
Field

Researchers at risk in Central Asia (part I)

Researcher safety in peace, conflict and security studies in Central Asia and beyond: Making sense and finding new ways forward. The safety of researchers is a pressing issue, with ever ⋙

  • Philipp Lottholz
Philipp Lottholz 17 Jan 2018 • 6 min read
Regeni, the media chorus sides with the counter-revolution
Debate

Regeni, the media chorus sides with the counter-revolution

Instead of looking into the mechanisms that shield the executioners from prosecution, Italian media and commentators spin conspiracies. Used to noir fiction, the public is thirsty for plot twists and ⋙

  • Francesco Strazzari
Francesco Strazzari 14 Jan 2018 • 4 min read
Gangs in Central America: Nicaragua vs the Northern Triangle
Crime

Gangs in Central America: Nicaragua vs the Northern Triangle

From maras to pandillas, between street gangs and organised crime: a comparative look across the region. While conducting field research in Central America on women and gangs, I was also ⋙

  • Angelita Francina Schout
Angelita Francina Schout 12 Jan 2018 • 7 min read
Everyday Practices of ‘Counter-Radicalisation’ and ‘Countering Violent Extremism’
radicalization

Everyday Practices of ‘Counter-Radicalisation’ and ‘Countering Violent Extremism’

Governing the Radical through Power, Knowledge, Economy and Routine. EISA Prague 2018 – Call for Papers and Panels. Convenors: Charlotte Heath-Kelly (University of Warwick) Ervjola Selenica (University of Trento, CIE - ⋙

  • Ervjola Selenica
Ervjola Selenica 22 Dec 2017 • 2 min read
The social roots of 'radicalisation' and 'violent extremism' in Africa
Debate

The social roots of 'radicalisation' and 'violent extremism' in Africa

Is 'radicalisation' the cause or the effect of violent conflict in Africa? English translation of the presentation given at the Mediterranean and Middle East Special Group of the ⋙

  • Francesco Strazzari
Francesco Strazzari 13 Dec 2017 • 6 min read
Migration management and the death of an Iraqi child in Bolzano: a conversation with senator Francesco Palermo
Debate

Migration management and the death of an Iraqi child in Bolzano: a conversation with senator Francesco Palermo

By Mattia Farris, Beatrice Autelli, Claudia Knering, and Alessia Muzzin - The wealthy Italian province of Bolzano/South Tyrol was already known to the international community for the political division ⋙

  • Guest author(s)
Guest author(s) 6 Dec 2017 • 6 min read

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