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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt: do you really want to counter terrorism?Is the failure intentional or a result of general incompetence? Because of repression or Islamic ideology? This...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe fragmentation of power in the Arab worldMany Arab countries seem to have reverted to a mode of power reminiscent of a pre-modern form of politics, where...
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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: North Africa, West AsiaJailed over a T-shirt: freedom for MahmoudA letter from Tarek to his brother Mahmoud Hussein, jailed in Egypt for 500 days for wearing an anti-torture...
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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: 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: openSecurityThe wounds of Baghdad's FrankensteinAhmed al-Sa'dawi's novel, rather than reconciling the complexities of violence in Iraq, seeks to exorcise the demons...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Iraqi crisis: rethinking the narrativeAn approach to Iraq focused on military intervention, with some humanitarian assistance, has defied the complexity...
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Published in: openSecurityWhen does a refugee camp become a permanent home?Encamped refugees are often portrayed on our TV screens as objects of pity with deadpan expressions. Time to ask...
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Published in: openSecurityYemen at warWith a humanitarian crisis mounting in Yemen, Saudi Arabia has eased its military pressure—for the moment.
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Published in: openSecuritySearching for justice: the Tokyo Women’s TribunalJustice for sexual crimes in wartime still remains elusive for many survivors, but it's never too late. From States...
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Published in: openSecurityFrom punishment to acknowledgment: tribunals of opinion in contexts of impunityCivil society tribunals, though unofficial, provide new spaces that fundamentally contest the state and its hold...
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Published in: openSecurityFrom Tottenham to Baltimore, policing crisis starts race to the bottom for justiceWhat is it about the police and urban black populations in the US and the UK? The explanation starts with two of the...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S abuses in South African prison still ignoredInvestigations and reports into allegations of widespread human-rights violations at G4S-run Mangaung prison have...
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Published in: openSecurityStates of impunityopenSecurity's new series explores how the violence of state crimes endures. How and when does the fight against...
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Published in: openSecurityOverlooked and invisible: the women of enforced disappearancesThe overwhelming majority of the victims of enforced disappearances are men. What happens to the women left behind?
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Published in: openSecurity‘Your face now looks permanently in pain’—awaiting sentence in EgyptThe sister of a US-Egyptian activist on hunger strike in a Cairo jail, whose cause has been taken up by Amnesty...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter Garissa, Kenya needs to break the cycleThe massacre at a university in Kenya should lead the government to a recognition that repressive and discriminatory...
