Security Praxis

Securitization of Islam in Italian counter-terrorism: Muslims as “suspect communities”

The negative perception of Islam in Italy has increased over the last years. Recent surveys show that Italians overestimate the presence of Muslims (accounted for 20% of the population, while the actual number was 3.7%, in 2016) and that unfavourable views on Muslim minorities are widespread (55% against 41% of positive ones). Although the last wave of jihadist terrorism exceptionally spared Italy, the majority of political parties have peddled the argument that all Muslims are potentially radicals. The outcome is a discourse on the radicalization of Islam that portrays it as a security ⋙

Italy, Islam, extremism, radicalization, securitization, critical terrorism studies

Research Highlights

Celebrating 20 years of UNSCR 1325: Past, present and future of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Final conference of the project Enhancing Women’s Participation in Peace and Security (WEPPS) 4 November 2020 – 11. ⋙

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 ⋙

warbling security

Africa

African Crossroads: Security Challenges and Partnership Opportunities

In the last decade, many African countries have experienced an economic growth rate among the world’s highest. In 2019, Ethiopia was the second-fastest growing economy globally,with an average ⋙

security sector reform

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

(C) Christopher Herwig. 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 ⋙

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 ⋙