Security Praxis

Nigeria's Super-Camps Strategy: early gains, disappointing outcomes

In July 2019, the Nigerian army announced a new strategy in its war against the Boko Haram insurgency sweeping the North-East of the country. In spite of a resolute approach to solving the crisis and some initial successes, President Buhari’s anti-terror campaign had proven unable to reform the Nigerian military to an extent that its lack of equipment, low numbers and payrolls, and soldier’s motivation could stand up to the insurgents. Boko Haram’s attacks became more and more frequent in mid-2018. Insurgents, mainly from the Dawla faction, ⋙

Counterinsurgency, Nigeria, Boko Haram, terrorism, Field, insurgencies, Sahel

Research Highlights

Executive Training for Early Career Researchers

Executive Training Seminars: Working and Researching in Challenging Environments, 30 November-2 December 2020, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa in ⋙

Transnational Governance Research Factory

A research incubator at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies promoting the study of transnational governance dynamics in ⋙

Call For Papers: New Voices And New Ideas On Women, Peace And Security Agenda

Call for articles “New Voices and New Ideas on Women Peace and Security Agenda": http://www.peaceagency.org/ ⋙

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Interviews

Oppression, Racism, and Gender in the US: a conversation with Peter Hudis (II)

We talked with Peter Hudis about racism and other critical problems – including the political economy of capitalism and its dynamics in relation to Covid-19, gender issues, and the upcoming presidential ⋙

Interviews

Oppression, Racism, and Gender in the US: a conversation with Peter Hudis (I)

“The problem is not the imposition of social distancing, but the inconsistent and inequitable way it has been applied. The latter is rooted in the political economy of capitalism, not ⋙

Armenia

The Armenian question: where does it stand more than a century after the genocide?

On the night of April 24th, 1915, executives of the Ottoman Young Turks-led government emitted an ordinance giving way to the 20th century’s first genocide: the killing of one ⋙

European Union

A toothless enforcement? Operation Irini between arms embargo and migration management

It was only after several rounds of heated discussions that, on the 25th of March, the Council of the European Union deliberated on the mandate of a new military operation ⋙

Debate

“Welcome home Silvia, into the lion’s den”: How gender biased narratives frame hostage liberations

News of Silvia Romano’s liberation started to circulate in social media on May 9th. Each one of our virtual walls, irrespective of the political faction, cultural background and personal ⋙

academic freedom

Academic freedom in pandemic times

The ravages of Covid-19 at a global level are under the spotlight. Everyday lives, health systems and economies are not, however, the only domains where the current pandemic makes its ⋙

Conferences

Africa (No) News: how the media forgot a continent during the Covid-19 emergency

by COSPE The under-representation of Africa in the Italian media catches the eye even more today, during the COVID-19 emergency. The absence of Africa from Italian primetime TV news, already ⋙

Mediterranean

A liquid frontline: new war imaginaries in the Mediterranean Sea

In the last few years, the Mediterranean area has witnessed at least three massive and unprecedented military operations that involve EU member states: the Italian Mare Nostrum (2013-2014), EUNAVFOR Med ⋙

Interviews

Our destiny, attached to life and exposed to death: an interview with Roberto Esposito

A conversation about society, politics, and philosophy in the time of coronavirus and the current historical conjuncture. The coronavirus and the measures aimed to cope with it have severely impacted ⋙

Reviews

Gomorrah's criminal divas

Feminism’s critique of popular culture for the way they degrade, objectify, distort and stereotype women are legion. In relation to their engagement with crime and violence for example women ⋙

Field

Ukraine’s women at arms

by Guntaj Mirzayev. Seven years into the war in Donbass, Ukraine is undergoing reforms in its security and defense sectors, also for what concerns women’s participation in the military. ⋙

cybersphere

The fight against coronavirus expands to cyberspace

by Veronica Maiello While the global physical threat represented by the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be widely acknowledged, another, unphysical, threat rises on the horizon of our vulnerabilities – and it ⋙

Field

Displacement in the Time of Corona: Life fragments of IDPs in Mali and Niger, among intercommunal violence and armed groups proliferation

In the West, much is being written about the spread of the coronavirus. During the last months, we visited refugees and IDPs camps in Mali and Niger to witness the ⋙