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Published in: openSecuritySpain: how a democratic country can silence its citizensSpain, one of the European countries at the sharp end of imposed austerity measures, has also been in the vanguard...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesHidden Warfare 1. CyberThe UK agency would like to be known as on the front line defending UK interests from cyber attacks, rather than as...
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Published in: openSecurityHidden in plain sight: children born of wartime sexual violenceAbortions and infanticide are widely reported in post-conflict settings. In Peru, women narrated familial and...
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Published in: openSecurity‘Talking to terrorists’: myth no. 6Myth number 6: that it is only governments or diplomats that do the talking. The role of local people in reaching...
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Published in: openSecurityTen theses on security in the 21st centuryWhat have we learned from the openSecurity experience as the section goes into hiatus? A lot. But governments,...
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Published in: HomeSousse, Kuwait, Lyon: a triple alertA single day's armed attacks reflect the intensity of the Islamic State war and are an augur of more to come.
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Published in: openSecurityReimagining security
Does security mean defence: tanks and barbed-wire fences? Or can it mean building relationships, confronting...
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Published in: openSecurityYemen: under fire, desperate for peaceCan the Yemen peace talks succeed? The dire humanitarian situation demands it but political factionalism and...
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Published in: openSecurityFor children born of war, what future?Sexual violence in conflict has attracted increasing attention, but with the majority of responses focused on...
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Published in: HomeIraq and Libya, the prospect
The resilience of Islamic State a year after its breakthrough makes an escalation of the current war inevitable.
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Published in: openSecurityThe five pillars of IslamophobiaVague categories like ‘extremist’ and ‘radicalisation’ are trawling Muslims in a very large ‘counter-terrorism’ net.
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Published in: openSecuritySecurity services should not have carte blancheIt seems obvious that human rights must be compromised to guarantee security in the face of armed violence. Obvious...
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Published in: openSecurityWhat role for a truth commission in Colombia?While a positive step in negotiations between warring parties, what are the limits of uncovering the dark truths of...
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Published in: openSecurityDalit women and village justice in rural IndiaEnjoyment of the rule of law requires judicial institutions which act with impartiality. For Dalit women in India’s...
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Published in: openSecuritySport cannot ignore human rightsAthletes will rely on free and fair competition at the European Games. Yet outside the stadium there is no free...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSingling out Israel: a perspective from the leftHow did the struggle for Palestine gain such prominence on the left? The answer might tell us something about...
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Published in: openSecurityHow to defuse the devices of the nuclear-armed statesThe five-yearly review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ended without any agreed commitments, unbalanced as...
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Published in: openSecurityAziz’s notebook: transmitting the memory of violenceA granddaughter discovers her grandfather's notebook years after the political massacres that stole her mother and...
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Published in: openSecurity‘Parrhesia’: the radical destruction of impunityWhat does it actually mean to speak truth to power? In his final two lectures, Michel Foucault discussed the risk...
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Published in: openSecurityThe wounds of Baghdad's Frankenstein
Ahmed al-Sa'dawi's novel, rather than reconciling the complexities of violence in Iraq, seeks to exorcise the demons...
