Conflict, security and peace

In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Malcolm Evans, former Chair of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture and author of ‘Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice’.…Read more

Clive Sealey, author of 'Applying Social Policy to Criminal Justice Practice', shows how criminal justice practice must move away from a narrow emphasis on crime and criminality, to a wider focus that attends to the social policy needs of individuals, groups and communities.…Read more

David C. Lane and Kristen M. Budd, co-editors of 'Beyond Bars', consider what has led to the dire state of mass incarceration in the US. …Read more

Jannie Møller Hartley, co-editor of 'DataPublics', considers the increasing amounts of data in our society, which is leading to echo chambers and new forms of capitalism that are surveying citizens at all times. …Read more

Warren Chin, author of 'War, Technology and the State', looks at the effect of the fourth industrial revolution on the relationship between war and the state.…Read more

Victor Porto, Guilherme Benzaquen, Simone Gomes and Roxana Cavalcanti explain how Bolsonaro’s far-right government impacted activism in the Brazilian Amazon. …Read more

Julia Margaret Zulver reveals how the mothers of the 100,000 missing children in Mexico mark Mother’s Day.…Read more

Charles Devellennes, author of 'The Macron Régime,' examines the protests in France following the killing of Nahel Merzouk and delves into how Macron's ideology has transformed French society. …Read more

In this final short conversation with Jack McDonald, author of What Is War For?', we turn to the part played by technology in war.…Read more

Federica Rossi and Chris Magill speak to Jess Miles about what state harms are, how they are justified, opportunities for resistance and whether academic research itself should be political.…Read more