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Published in: openDemocracyUKTo combat hate, we must celebrate diversityExtremists want to destroy the fabric that binds people together – but religious diversity brings people together,...
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Published in: HomeRipping back the veil: an interview with Arun KundnaniTrump promises politics in its naked form: the seizure of power for his clan, and be damned with all the rest. As...
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Published in: openSecurityHow states can constrain resort to political violenceRecognising there are political elements to any campaign of militant violence makes it less ‘terrifying’ for society...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter the torture report—rebalancing the scales of justiceIn the voluminous responses to the long-awaited US Senate committee report on torture by the CIA, the essence of...
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Published in: openSecurityObama, Saudi Arabia and “anti-terrorism”Last week the US president, Barack Obama, visited Saudi Arabia. Fighting extremism, the crisis in Syria, and Iran's...
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Published in: openSecurityBritain, Turkey and trading human rights for 'counter-terrorism'openSecurity was inspired by a 2005 conference in Madrid on the anniversary of the Atocha station bombings, marked...
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Published in: HomeSomething rotten in the kingdom of Norway
At the end of his trial, the terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was deemed sufficiently sane to be imprisoned. But the...
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Published in: HomeThe London bombs, five years on: a digest
The coordinated bomb-attacks on London’s transport network on 7 July 2005 (“7/7”) left dozens dead and hundreds...
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Published in: oDRVictims of the bulldogs under that carpetIn 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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Published in: HomeSpain's politics of memory
The Madrid train-bombings on 11 March 2004 provoked a dignified outpouring of collective grief. But the moment was...
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Published in: HomePakistan: prospects and perils
What's in store for Pakistan? Anatol Lieven forecasts. Listen now
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