Yesterday evening I attended a Pugwash lecture by Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Ebadi is currently visiting Britain, promoting her autobiography and speaking
This week saw the release of two documents related to the 7 July bombings which took pace in London last year. The first was the government’s official account of
London’s Metropolitan Police made a mistake. Two weeks ago, 250 officers raided a house in East London, convinced that they were about to take out a chemical bomb factory.
Amnesty International today presented its latest annual report. It criticised human rights violations from Colombia to North Korea, but singled out Western countries – yet again – for their stance
Lawrence Korb
The Bush administration’s numerous mistakes have left us with few good options. To protect our security interests, the U.S. should announce a timetable for redeploying all
Yezid Sayigh is Professor in Middle Eastern Studies at King’s College London. He is a former negotiator of the PLO-Israel accord of May 1994, and author of Armed Struggle
Shlomo Ben-Ami is a former Israeli foreign minister and the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy (Oxford University Press, 2006).
The problem doesn’t really
The rise and rise of the computer games industry has been one of the features of the nascent 21st century. Worth billions of dollars worldwide and expanding constantly, every day
This is a game that sets out to change your take on life, and explicitly aims for its players to carry what they experience in a virtual world into the
The brainchild of Peter Ackerman and Steve York, AFMP is actually more of a training tool than a game, as an idea it developed out of the series of peaceful
The Madrid11.net editorial team that was created in May 2007 was formally disbanded in December 2009.
From December 2009, the Madrid11.net section became a new openDemocracy section: openSecurity.
One of the most surprising political developments since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has been the extent to which the fight against terrorism has divided the democratic world. A
