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To combat hate, we must celebrate diversity

Published on: 7 June 2017

Written by: Stephen Timms All articles by Stephen Timms

Extremists want to destroy the fabric that binds people together – but religious diversity brings people together,...

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Ripping back the veil: an interview with Arun Kundnani

Published on: 19 November 2016

Written by: Phoebe Braithwaite All articles by Phoebe Braithwaite

Written by: Arun Kundnani All articles by Arun Kundnani

Trump promises politics in its naked form: the seizure of power for his clan, and be damned with all the rest. As...

Published in: openSecurity

How states can constrain resort to political violence

Published on: 15 January 2015

Written by: Aoibhín de Búrca All articles by Aoibhín de Búrca

Recognising there are political elements to any campaign of militant violence makes it less ‘terrifying’ for society...

Published in: openSecurity

After the torture report—rebalancing the scales of justice

Published on: 12 December 2014

Written by: Daniele Rumolo All articles by Daniele Rumolo

In the voluminous responses to the long-awaited US Senate committee report on torture by the CIA, the essence of...

Published in: openSecurity

Obama, Saudi Arabia and “anti-terrorism”

Published on: 1 April 2014

Written by: Ahmed E Souaiaia All articles by Ahmed E Souaiaia

Last week the US president, Barack Obama, visited Saudi Arabia. Fighting extremism, the crisis in Syria, and Iran's...

Published in: openSecurity

Britain, Turkey and trading human rights for 'counter-terrorism'

Published on: 27 January 2014

Written by: Anon All articles by Anon

openSecurity was inspired by a 2005 conference in Madrid on the anniversary of the Atocha station bombings, marked...

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Something rotten in the kingdom of Norway

Published on: 4 September 2012

Written by: Thomas Hylland Eriksen All articles by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

At the end of his trial, the terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was deemed sufficiently sane to be imprisoned. But the...

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The London bombs, five years on: a digest

Published on: 7 July 2011

Written by: David Hayes All articles by David Hayes

The coordinated bomb-attacks on London’s transport network on 7 July 2005 (“7/7”) left dozens dead and hundreds...

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Victims of the bulldogs under that carpet

Published on: 31 March 2010

Written by: Maxim Kantor All articles by Maxim Kantor

In Maxim Kantor’s opinion, the 39 deaths in the Moscow metro bombings on 29 March are victims of that fight between...

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Spain's politics of memory

Published on: 11 March 2010

Written by: Guy Hedgecoe All articles by Guy Hedgecoe

The Madrid train-bombings on 11 March 2004 provoked a dignified outpouring of collective grief. But the moment was...

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Pakistan: prospects and perils

Published on: 21 November 2007

What's in store for Pakistan? Anatol Lieven forecasts. Listen now

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