Security Praxis

Reclaiming security: Civil society activism, expertise, and knowledge production in police reform

The police in Kyrgyzstan needs to be reformed in a fundamental and consequent manner to start functioning according to legal provisions and statutes, and to carry out crucial societal tasks. Until today, this institution has not only often failed to uphold law, order and basic security, but has itself been a source of insecurity. Pilot projects on community policing or patrol police indicate the positive potential of reform, but also illustrate the reluctant and ineffective overall approach of the responsible actors.

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security sector reform, Crime, police, civil society, Kyrgyzstan

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/ ⋙

warbling security

Niger

Islamic State and Al-Qaeda in the Sahel, inhuman with humanitarians?

On Sunday 9 August, six humanitarian workers of the French NGO ACTED and two Nigeriens accompanying them were killed in an ambush at Kouré, some 60km away from Niger’s ⋙

Turkey

New Political Debate in Turkey: Istanbul Convention

While violence against women worldwide is on sharp rise, we are also witnessing a backlash and attack against the rights that protect women from such violence. One such recent example ⋙

Turkey

Building bridges: the role of civil society towards a possible Armenian-Turkish reconciliation

The Republic of Turkey is a relatively young nation state, born from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. The question of national minorities was among the factors that led to ⋙

Climate politics

The Green New Deal and the shift away from “post-politics”

The Green New Deal articulates demands for employment, social justice and equality of different groups to build a coalition that re-politicises not the existence of climate change, but the response ⋙

Counterinsurgency

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 ⋙

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 ⋙