Death and rescue in the Central Mediterranean: overcoming the limits of private outsourcing

Mario Ragazzi on Debate, migrants, Mediterranean, asylum seeker, Italy, Libya

The search-and-rescue operations in the Central Mediterranean were overall successful in saving thousands of lives in the years 2014-2017. Compared with the previous years, the rescues reduced and stabilised the fatality rate for the persons attempting a dangerous sea crossing. Several NGOs contributed significantly to this joint effort coordinated by the Italian Coast Guard's Maritime

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Visual impressions from a field trip to Niger

Francesco Strazzari, Luca Raineri 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 »

Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación: a relentless growth?


by Carla Di Franco
 
(CC) Alex Lomix The Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) is a relatively new…

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…

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