Security Praxis

How does Privilege Violence explain the world we live in: a conversation with Rachel Kleinfeld

In 2019 we read A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security, a book that changed our view on violence and conflict and was hugely influential not just for us, but most of those working on civil wars worldwide. In her book, Dr Kleinfeld shows that the state weakness theory does not account for most state violence against its citizens. The main question in the book is how certain democracies, which are middle-income countries, currently not in a conflict situation, present high levels of internal violence. Some of ⋙

Interviews, violence, police, corruption, Kenya, South Africa, Brasil, USA

Research Highlights

Contrecarrer l’Extrémisme Violent au Sahel: le Rôle de l’UE en Discussion

Café débat le 14 Janvier 2021, 16h00 - 18h00 (UTC +1 Rome, Bruxelles, Niamey) 15h00-17h00 (UTC Bamako, Dakar) ⋙

Contrecarrer l’Extrémisme Violent au Maghreb: le Rôle de l’UE en Discussion

Café débat le 13 Janvier 2021, 14h00 - 16h00 (UTC +1 Rome, Brussels, Tunis, Rabat), en ligne sur ⋙

Conference on Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change

9 December 2020 – 9.00-11.15 (CET) – Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies – Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa (online on ⋙

warbling security

Crime

The parallel crime pandemic: how organised crime is exploiting the health emergency in Italy

“This coronavirus was such a good deal”. The manager of a company operating in the sanitisation sector was sanguine when discussing his business prospects on the phone. The Police of ⋙

scholars at risk

Call for support for the release of Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali

It has been five years since Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali's was arrested, imprisoned and sentenced to death in Iran. On Monday, April 26, 2021, Prof. Ole Petter Ottersen, President of the ⋙

PREVEX

Strategies against violent extremism? One, None and a Hundred-thousand

The fight against violent extremism has become one of the key objectives of the European Union’s external action. But what is the EU actually doing to prevent and counter ⋙

Afghanistan

The rights of Afghan women must not be the “sacrificial goat” in a male dominated peace process

Afghanistan is entering another uncertain phase of transition, with an uncertain fate for half of its population, women. Twenty years ago, the US-led international community intervened militarily in Afghanistan to ⋙

Ireland

Northern Ireland's centenary overshadowed by Brexit fallout (part 2)

In 2015, an MI5 report revealed that all the main paramilitary forces active during The Troubles were still intact, and some of their weapons had yet to be decommissioned. Even ⋙

Ireland

Northern Ireland's centenary overshadowed by Brexit fallout (part 1)

On March 4, loyalist paramilitary forces sent a letter to the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Taoiseach Micheál Martin declaring they would be no longer supporting the Good ⋙

India

Kashmir beyond the ceasefire: an unsteady and dangerous peace

Last February India and Pakistan announced a ceasefire in the contested Kashmir for the first time in nearly twenty years. Although a potentially positive development, other ceasefires have been agreed ⋙

Interviews

What France’s past wars in Chad can tell us about current wars in the Sahel: a conversation with Nathaniel Powell

Following the publication of his latest book on France’s Wars in Chad in the 1960s and 70s with Cambridge University Press, in this interview Nathaniel delves into how the ⋙

academic freedom

Boğaziçi University under attack: resistance against the violence of heterosexualism

Democracy is backsliding as different parts of the world from Europe to Asia turn to authoritarian government or democratures. Among the hallmarks of this trend are attacks on academic freedom, ⋙

Myanmar

Old coup, new media in Myanmar

Military rule in Myanmar started in 1962 with the first coup. From that time, successive military regimes launched a series of measures aimed at cultural homogenisation and the marginalisation of ⋙

Reviews

Moving past the worst thing

In November 2020 the European Forum for Restorative Justice organised an arts’ festival on the themes of justice, solidarity, and repair. Among the contributions of REstART was the documentary The ⋙

Chile

Breaking the circle of political sexual violence: feminist and LGBTQ+ activism in Chile during the 2018-2019 protests

On 26 October 2019, during the heydays of the Chilean Protests, hundreds of people were waiting for Joshua Maureira outside the prosecutor’s office where he was giving his statement. ⋙

Sahel

The role of the EU in preventing, countering violent extremism in the Sahel: achievements and limitations

What is the role of the EU in the fields of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) in the Sahel? Following the adoption of the EU Sahel Strategy in ⋙

Maghreb

PREVEX H2020 project Café Débat: Countering Violent Extremism in the Maghreb. The Role of the EU Under Discussion

Following the adoption of the European Union’s counter-terrorism strategy in 2005, the EU Strategy for combating radicalization and recruitment to terrorism has increasingly emphasized the ‘internal-external security nexus’ and ⋙

Turkey

Turkish universities’ long and hard struggle for autonomy

“We do not want a trustee rector.” Not a day passes without people in Turkey witnessing a new anti-democratic attempt. Boğaziçi University, one of the most prestigious universities in Istanbul, ⋙