Field Visual impressions from a field trip to Niger In november 2018 Luca Raineri and Francesco Strazzari conducted field research in Niger, spending three weeks between the capital Niamey and Agadez, ‘la belle du desert’. Without any ambition to ⋙
Crime Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación: a relentless growth? (CC) Alex Lomix The Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) is a relatively new organized crime syndicate, which emerged in 2010 as an offshoot of the Milenio Cartel, part of ⋙
Debate Insurgencies: interdisciplinary snapshots On 24-25 September 2018 the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy, hosted a two-day conference titled Insurgencies: an interdisciplinary approach. The broader aim of the conference was to ⋙
Debate Restorative justice and terrorism: resisting evil with non-evil? The restorative justice approach has great potential in responding to terrorist acts, and the ensuing polarization, because it focuses on forms of political and pre-political communication, exchange and encounters that are able to allow ‘difficult’ but respectful conversations in societal space. ⋙
Debate Crimes of (dis) obedience: Radical shifting of the criminological gaze The development and unification of criminology as a discipline, as a distinct terrain of study and knowledge complex has mostly revolved and condensed around two interrelated focuses: 1. legally defined ⋙
participation Better together? Assessing cooperation between researchers, policy-makers and practitioners (CC) Pedro Ribeiro Simões What are the connections between scholarly knowledge production on security on the one hand and security expertise, policy-making and practices on the other? Under what conditions ⋙
Field Politics, conflict and criminality: firearms proliferation in Ukraine In June 2016, Grégoire Moutaux, a French national, was apprehended at one of the Ukrainian-Polish border crossing points while trying to smuggle 5 AK-pattern assault rifles, thousands of bullets, 2 ⋙
Debate Education and language: global and local strategies of Sahelian jihadism Growing insecurity in the Sahel and especially in Central Mali and Northern Burkina Faso is characterized by lack of control of the central government over big parts of the country& ⋙
Culture Barabbas' version: Analysis of a major terror attack in Rome, A.D. 64 Our correspondent reports from the great city of the Caesars. A few months ago, on 19th July of the tenth year of divus Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, DCCCXVII a. ⋙
Debate Mutually Constitutive State-building Processes in the Borderlands of Myanmar Myanmar arguably hosts one of the largest concentrations of state-repelling ethnic minorities. Nevertheless, with the gradual occupation, co-optation and articulation of physical and social spaces and structures by central authorities, ⋙
Debate The Unbearable Lightness of R2P: The Rohingya Case The sterile current debate about the ‘responsibility to protect’ the Rohingya minority highlights one of the aporias of the contemporary national politico-legal frameworks: the rupture between citizenship and nude humanness. ⋙
Debate Cyber and Human Vulnerabilities: Who Is the Ethical Hacker and Why Should We Care Cyber and human vulnerabilities are mutually dependent and the so-called ethical hackers seem the best solution for firms and governments to cope with cyber threats. However, the hackers’ technical skills ⋙
Field Researchers at risk in Central Asia (part II) Researcher safety in peace, conflict and security studies in Central Asia and beyond: Making sense and finding new ways forward. The safety of researchers is a pressing issue, with ever ⋙
Field Researchers at risk in Central Asia (part I) Researcher safety in peace, conflict and security studies in Central Asia and beyond: Making sense and finding new ways forward. The safety of researchers is a pressing issue, with ever ⋙
Debate Regeni, the media chorus sides with the counter-revolution Instead of looking into the mechanisms that shield the executioners from prosecution, Italian media and commentators spin conspiracies. Used to noir fiction, the public is thirsty for plot twists and ⋙
Crime Gangs in Central America: Nicaragua vs the Northern Triangle From maras to pandillas, between street gangs and organised crime: a comparative look across the region. While conducting field research in Central America on women and gangs, I was also ⋙
