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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia: security sector reformThree years since the slogan “no fear after today” spread through Tunisia, police and security forces still operate...
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Published in: openSecurityOn the trail of Britain's undercover police
Recent revelations have exposed the routine embedding of undercover police officers within environmental and social...
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Published in: openSecurityDeaths in British police custody: no convicted officers since 1969
827 people have died during or following police contact since 2004. Families have struggled hard for justice,...
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Published in: openSecurityDisruption policing: surveillance and the right to protest
From overt, intrusive surveillance to 'network demolition': disruption is central to the strategies of...
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Published in: openSecurityEntrepreneurial policing? International policing challenges
The export of policing is a global growth industry in which the UK plays a major role. Recent years have seen the...
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Published in: openSecurityThe history of British involvement in Bahrain's internal security
John Yates is only the most recent Briton to be given a public role in Bahrain's internal security. Since founding...
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Published in: openSecurityThe military grip on US policing
US domestic law enforcement finds one reason after another to adopt military tactics and tougher approaches to...
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Published in: Shine A LightWhen will there be policing for black people in Britain?
The Metropolitan Police spied on the family of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence. Violence against people...
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Published in: openSecurityIsrael's loopy logic of exoneration
Israel's recent 'update' on military investigations into civilian deaths in Gaza last November is an affirmation of...
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Published in: openSecurityConflict at the EU's southern borders: the Sahel crisis
Gradually, EU systems of governance have extended into the southern Mediterranean, linking dynamics in the Sahel...
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Published in: openSecurityIn militias we trust: Libya's conundrum
The rapid disintegration of Muammar al Gaddafi’s armed forces and police meant that the militias born out of the...
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Published in: Shine A LightWhen business and the state co-opt ‘independent’ civil society
How can charities and community organisations provide effective advocacy when they are agents of the state or...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Cairo Gang, the Force Research Unit and ... Rupert MurdochThe story of the FRU must be one of the most sordid in British Intelligence. It reveals a deep gulf in Northern...
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Published in: openSecurityWhen soldiering gets sexy: the militarization of gender equality and sexual differenceUp in Arms continues to track the figure of the soldier in contemporary culture as a consequence of NATO’s wars. How...
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Published in: openSecurityInfatuation and the US Army
To a large extent Petraeus, four star general and chief spy, was a political and media invention. Take a closer look...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S equips the apartheid wall, Israel confirmsThe company whose logo appears on police staff uniforms in the UK and dropped the Olympics contract has far reaching...
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Published in: 50.50Child soldiers, child wives: wounded for life
Working with ex-child soldiers of Charles Taylor's army, and the girls they have taken as wives, has convinced Nobel...
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Published in: HomeA new dawn in Saudi?
Two men are now heading the virtual entirety of the Kingdom’s intelligence gathering apparatuses. MbN’s control over...
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Published in: openSecurityRépublique Démocratique du Congo: dépasser le cycle de la crise
L'éruption de violence dans l'est de la République Démocratique du Congo reflète l'échec des organisations...
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Published in: openSecurityRwanda's connection to the M23 rebels must not be ignored
Many of the drivers of conflict in eastern DR Congo lie within its borders, but an analysis that ignores the role of...
