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Vision from a ‘pro-EU’ Serbia
Understanding that rampant nationalism is a thing of the past, and understanding even better that support from the international community is crucial, Aleksandar Vučić is now presenting himself as...
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Shadow of military looms large over Pakistan street protests
The military is never far from politics in Pakistan—and it may be implicated in the latest political crisis, as opposition forces led by Imran Khan challenge the legitimacy of the government of Nawaz...
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UK government accused of unlawful deportation of Buddhist monk
Sheffield campaigners express outrage at “illegal and immoral” deportation of Sushilananda Sraman, a Buddhist monk who fears persecution in his native Bangladesh.Sushil Sraman helping raise awareness...
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Members of G4S’s private army of ex-Gurkhas win medals for gallantry
• Citation sheds light on the work of private security guards in the “War on Terror”.• G4S Gurkhas deployed by energy companies against environmental protesters in the UK.Four former British Army...
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Beyond hate: a call to explore the emotions of anti-minority protest
Activists’ initial involvement with the EDL was often associated with feelings of anger and outrage, but also with feelings of excitement and with feelings of possibility. English Defence League...
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A new way of challenging racism and far-right ideas in young people
Through open dialogue and debate we seek to understand why they feel the way they do. Then, we aim to give them the facts and information they need to think for themselves.“It’s helped me to understand...
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The ethics of the responsibility to protect
Max Weber’s contrast between political action based on an ethics of responsibility or an ethics of conviction is instructive in trying to understand and explain the selective application of the R2P...
View ArticleSpeaking against prejudice
Engaging with those who have racist or prejudiced views is important, but it needs to be done the right way. Here’s how to have conversations with them and challenge these ideologies. (Video, 2...
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Forgotten South Sudan tangled in factionalism and failed politics
Most coverage of the conflict in South Sudan--in as far as there still is any--has presented it as a duel between rivals from the former seccessionist movement, reduced to cyphers for Dinka and Nuer...
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Review: Andrey Kurkov, ‘Ukraine Diaries’
History often seems obvious in retrospect; writing a diary catches it as it runs through the fingers. Russian forces have invaded Ukraine, with or without the right epaulettes. History often seems...
View ArticleClosed eyes, closed borders: EU policy and refugees from Syria
European countries should allow more Syrian refugees to entry Europe legally and safely.There are now nearly 3 million registered refugees from Syria. About 96% of them live in five countries...
View ArticleTo fight extremism we need more Islamisms, not less
As with most other societies that have forced Islamism underground, today’s British fighters in Iraq and Syria were in all likelihood unconvinced by the quietism of Britain’s religious scholars.Most...
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Georgia looks west, Armenia east
This summer, Georgia signed an Association Agreement with the EU, but its southern neighbour, Armenia, has opted for the rival Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union.On 27 June 2014, at a summit of EU...
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Investigating Mitie, the market leader in UK immigration detention
A company called Mitie cleans Odeon cinemas and NHS hospitals . . . Now, all of a sudden, they're the UK government's favoured supplier for locking up immigration detainees. How did that happen?Ruby...
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The challenge of conspiracy theories – how to enhance critical thinking...
Conspiracy theories are extremely helpful for leaders provoking violent conflicts. They simplify the world, victimise the ingroup, diabolise the enemy, and give justification for violence.In an earlier...
View ArticleDealing with extremism online
What are the human impacts of far-right extremism? Hear perspectives from a survivor of far-right violence and a former far-right extremist (Video, 3 minutes)The FREE Initiative (Far-Right Extremism...
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How polar extremisms fuel and support each other
Groups hold similar roots of discontent, such as poverty, discrimination and the sense of values under threat, but manifest these sentiments in an array of diverse extremist ideologies with highly...
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A tax on texting? Getting creative with funding human rights in Africa
For too long, the African Union and its human rights bodies have depended on foreign aid. If the Union implements a radical new financing tax on airline tickets, texts and hotel stays, however, its...
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The ecology of sanctions
Sanctions against Russian natural resources tycoons will be good for the environment. There is an old Russian joke about a woodsman, in 1942, in the Belovezhskaya forest in Belarus. He walks through...
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News credibility in an age of stakeholder media
Are reporters mere adjuncts of power and spies? That is how ISIS treated the martyred journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. To this day, the failure of the American news industry to expose the...
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