Security Praxis

Transitional justice failure? The international responses to Yazidi genocide

On 3 August 2014, the Islamic State (IS) attacked the Yazidi community in Iraq’s Nineveh Province, Sinjar region, resulting in mass killings and enslavement of at least 12,000 Yazidis. The IS crimes against Yazidis and other ethnic minorities were widely recognised as constituting crimes of genocide in accordance with Article 2, 1948 Geneva Genocide Convention and as crimes against humanity and war crimes in line with Article 7(1) and Article 8, Rome Statue. As of March 2025, there have been onl ⋙

yazidi, genocide, international justice, UNITAD, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Islamic State

Research Highlights

Seminar Wider Mediterranean. Crisis or opportunity? 5/05 Bologna

Wider Mediterranean. Sea of Crisis or Sea of Opportunity? Aula 21 Piazza Scaravilli 2, University of Bologna, 40126 ⋙

Seminar on Externalizing Migration Governance and Its Entanglements with Crime in North Africa, 3/04 Sant'Anna Pisa

Chair Luca Raineri, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Speaker: Luigi Achilli, European University Institute Meeting online: ⋙

AfricaConnect seminars: Chad’s new alliances and old challenges, Pisa 13 Feb

Seminar: Chad’s new alliances and old challenges. An “island of stability” in a volatile neighbourhood? Speakers: Enrica ⋙

The Darwinian moment in the EU: The Defense pact

Either it adapts and evolves, or it doesn't survive: here we are at the Darwinian moment of a united Europe, after the alignment between the USA and Russia. ⋙

Kako Nubukpo

Interview with Kako Nabukpo, University of Lomé (Togo) Part II

This is the second part of the interview with Kako Nubukpo – Full Professor of Economics at the University of Lomé (Togo), former WAEMU Commissioner in charge of Agriculture, Water Resources, ⋙

panafricanism

Interview with Kako Nabukpo, University of Lomé (Togo) Part I

During this interview, Kako Nubukpo – Full Professor in Economic at the University of Lomé (Togo), Former WAEMU Commissioner in charge of Agriculture, Water Resources and Environment, former Minister of Long-term ⋙

Anthropocene

The Anthropocene impact on the de-peripheralization of the Arctic

The Arctic is among the world's most climate-fragile regions, being very responsive to temperature increases. In the Anthropocene epoch, the Arctic’s “surface air temperatures have warmed at ⋙

Syria

Captagon: beyond Syrian regime downfall

Introduction The recent fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime , led by the rebel-jihadist group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (former Jabhat al Nusra) and others, seems to have reshaped Syria’ ⋙

NIJAR

Negotiating Peace with Militant Islam in the Sahel: Insights from the NIJAR Project

The sight of Al-Qaeda’s flag flying over Mali’s Bamako International Airport after the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) attack in late September highlights a stark reality: in ⋙

7 October

Combat Cuties: the (self)weaponization of Israeli women soldiers’ image

• Disclaimer: This blog post adopts a critical perspective on tweets and online content that explicitly trivialize and hyper-sexualize women's bodies, essentially amounting to sexual harassment. It includes such ⋙

Fentanyl

The silent threat: Fentanyl's emerging impact on Europe

Introduction Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is distinguished by its exceptional potency—surpassing that of heroin by fiftyfold and morphine by a hundredfold. Its pronounced potency elevates the risk of overdose ⋙