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Published in: openSecurityCIA torture programme cast a wide netThe CIA’s ‘deep interrogation’ and the Guantánamo detention camp came to symbolise the US ‘war on terror’. Yet it...
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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: openSecurityBehind the rise of the private surveillance industry in Central AsiaMultinational companies–including two listed on the NASDAQ–have been quietly providing Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan...
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Published in: openSecurityDominic Ongwen and the slow-grinding wheels of the International Criminal CourtHe may not be a household name but his eventual trial at the ICC may highlight the long-forgotten victims of the...
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Published in: openSecurityHow the US made torture politicalThe US Senate committee report, far from reinforcing the absolute prohibition against torture, has turned the crime...
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Published in: openSecurityTensions rise between India and PakistanInternational constraint and mutual nuclear deterrence may have prevented all-out war with Pakistan in the past over...
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Published in: openSecurityEthnicised justice and dealing with the past in ex-YugoslaviaThere was much hope in the international community that the Hague war-crimes tribunal on former Yugoslavia, allied...
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Published in: openSecurityDeadly cargo: explosive weapons in populated areasIt’s been a year of searing images of horrifying mass civilian injury and death, from Gaza to eastern Ukraine. The...
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Africa’s parliament and the politicisation of the policeThe police were a symbol of the old, apartheid South Africa. Unfortunately they are becoming a symbol of the ‘new...
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Published in: openSecurityReflections on intervention in the 21st centuryWhere stands now the ‘responsibility to protect’? Recent egregious intervention failures require simplistic nostra...
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Published in: openSecurityWho is accountable for Gaza reconstruction?The latest war in Gaza brought not only vast human suffering but devastation to its already pummelled built...
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Published in: openSecurityUnder siege: from Leningrad to GazaTwo strangers with very different pasts united by a common experience of siege and blockade.
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Published in: openSecurityEgypt: from bathhouse to prisonNo one is immune to the Egyptian authorities’ ruthless crackdown. Most recently ‘debauchery’ charges have been...
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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: openSecurityCivilian justice trumps military impunity in MyanmarThe rare conviction of a soldier in civilian court shows how, case by case, the criminal justice system is slowly...
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Published in: openSecurityBetween Scylla and Charybdis: life in Pakistan’s tribal frontierThe Federally Administered Tribal Areas touching Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan suffer a toxic mix of state and...
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Published in: openSecurityWhy the murder rate in Honduras is twice as high as anywhere elseHonduras' perfect storm of machismo, repression, corruption and impunity make it the murder capital of the world.
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Published in: openSecurityBusiness as usual in Mexico despite 43 murdered studentsThe Mexican government has shown remarkable inertia since the apparent police abduction and subsequent gang murder...
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Published in: openSecurityA permanent infrastructure for permanent war
America's 35-year-long strategy of dotting the Middle East with military bases, large and small, is one of the...
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Published in: openSecurityMyanmar: the human-rights story behind the spinThe authorities in Nay Pyi Taw are steering the former authoritarian pariah state to open engagement with the world....
