Conflict, security and peace

In their practice briefing, Teresa Silva and Marzena Kordaczuk-Was, authors of Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalisation, stress that addressing violent extremism has become a global priority.…Read more

Kyla Bavin, Adam Lynes, James Treadwell and Max Hart, authors of 'Crimes of the Powerful and the Contemporary Condition', explore how AI’s true threat lies not in dramatic apocalyptic scenarios but in its subtle erosion of workers’ rights, deepening inequalities, and enabling corporate exploitation.…Read more

In this practitioner briefing, Craig Barlow, author of 'The Complexities of Human Trafficking and Exploitation', shows how professionals in law enforcement, social work, education, and healthcare face challenges in addressing exploitation and trafficking due to oversimplified protocols. …Read more

Carol Johnson explores how gender shaped the U.S. presidential elections, influencing voting patterns and portraying strong male leaders as protectors against various threats.…Read more

Peter Squires and Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, editors of 'Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order', examine the emerging ‘southern’ and postcolonial challenges to conventional criminology, specifically the role of police and military power.…Read more

The budget and resources that have been dedicated to combatting terrorism this century are staggering. But has it worked? In this episode, George Miller talks to Leonie B. Jackson about the exceptional measures that states have taken in recent decades in reaction to terrorist threats which they often portray as existential.…Read more

Leona Vaughn analyses how the UK’s 2024 racist riots, masked as efforts to 'protect children,' expose the racialised nature of terrorism in British policy and public perception.…Read more

Mareile Kaufmann, author of 'Making Information Matter', examines the rise of ancestry research and how it fosters new cultures of genomic data collection, with businesses capitalising on its commercialisation.…Read more

Natasha Lindstaedt, author of 'Democratic Decay and Authoritarian Resurgence', suggests that casting doubt on the US electoral process has had serious consequences on the quality of US democracy.…Read more

Karen Lee Ashcraft, author of 'Wronged and Dangerous', argues that for all their seismic energy, even Swifties can’t compete with the momentum made by a power plant like the manosphere and suggests that the time has come to learn its name and address it head-on.…Read more