Restorative justice and terrorism: resisting evil with non-evil?

Brunilda Pali on Debate, terrorism, restorative justice, criminal justice, radicalization, Basque Country, ETA, Italy, Red Brigades

(CC) Enrique Dans
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.                      
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Crimes of (dis) obedience: Radical shifting of the criminological gaze

Brunilda Pali on Debate, criminology, dissent, obedience

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 crimes or deviance and transgression from social-moral norms, and 2. the criminalisation, control and punishment that relate to these. Condensing its gaze on crime »

Better together? Assessing cooperation between researchers, policy-makers and practitioners


by Elisa Lopez Lucia and Philipp Lottholz
 
(CC) Pedro Ribeiro Simões What are the connections between scholarly knowledge production on security…

Politics, conflict and criminality: firearms proliferation in Ukraine


by Francesco Buscemi and Katia Golovko
 
In June 2016, Grégoire Moutaux, a French national, was apprehended at one of the…

Education and language: global and local strategies of Sahelian jihadism


by Katia Golovko
 
Growing insecurity in the Sahel and especially in Central Mali and Northern Burkina Faso…

Barabbas' version: Analysis of a major terror attack in Rome, A.D. 64


by Mario Ragazzi
 
Our correspondent reports from the great city of the Caesars. A few months ago,…

Mutually Constitutive State-building Processes in the Borderlands of Myanmar


by Francesco Buscemi
 
Myanmar arguably hosts one of the largest concentrations of state-repelling ethnic minorities. Nevertheless, with…

The Unbearable Lightness of R2P: The Rohingya Case


by Igor Milić
 
The sterile current debate about the ‘responsibility to protect’ the Rohingya minority highlights one…

Cyber and Human Vulnerabilities: Who Is the Ethical Hacker and Why Should We Care


by Anita Biscaro
 
Cyber and human vulnerabilities are mutually dependent and the so-called ethical hackers seem the…

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