Conflict - Conflit

Articles

• The last peace process in the basque country: 14 months of hope

  6 October 2008, by Forero Alejandro, Rivera Iñaki, Rodríguez Fernandez Gabriela, Ubasart Gemma
  The present work shows the genesis and development of the last peace process that took place in the Basque Country from March, 2007, in the frame of antiterrorist excepcionalism. The paper focus on the origins of the Basque conflict - outlining the history of the movement ETA- and in the influence that both the diverse actors and a part of the Spanish written press (the newspapers El País, El Mundo and Gara) have had in the development of the events.

• Olsson Christian : curriculum vitae

  31 mars 2008, par Olsson Christian
  Doctorant en sciences politiques (relations internationales) à l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) de Paris affilié au Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI). Chercheur associé au Centre d’Etudes sur les Conflits, Paris

• Norway Criticized for Extradition to Regimes Practicing Torture

  4 February 2008, by Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
  Several human rights organizations have claimed that the Norwegian military intentionally extradite Afghan prisoners of war to regimes that evidently practice torture.

• The external dimension of security, in particular the fight against terrorism

  22 October 2007, by Frattini Franco
  Speech by Commissioner Franco Frattini, Security and Defence Agenda conference «Defining a European Security Strategy», 18th October 2007.

• Treaty Establishing Eurogendfor

  22 October 2007, by Portuguese Government
  The Portuguese Government congratulates itself on the signature today, the 18th of October 2007, of the Treaty establishing and governing the European Gendarmerie Force (Eurogendfor). The signature of the Treaty is an essential step to endow the European Union with a joint police tool designed to respond to crisis scenarios. Eurogendfor should be used in non-stabilised and added-risk environments.

• Décision cadre relative à la protection des données : le CEPD est préoccupé par la dilution des normes de protection des données

  25 septembre 2007, par Contrôleur européen de la protection des données
  Le Contrôleur européen de la protection des données (CEPD) encourage les efforts continus de la présidence portugaise visant à parvenir à un accord sur la décision cadre relative à la protection des données (DCPD) dans le cadre de la coopération policière et judiciaire en matière pénale.

• Workshop : The political an social impact of security policies

  4 June 2007, by Palidda Salvatore
  The workshop aims to outline, analyse, and discuss the main political impacts of global security politics

• La politique de la peur crée un monde dangereusement divisé

  29 mai 2007, par Amnesty International
  Des gouvernements puissants et des groupes armés suscitent délibérément la peur afin de porter atteinte aux droits humains et de créer un monde de plus en plus divisé et dangereux, a déclaré aujourd’hui Amnesty International à l’occasion de la sortie de son Rapport 2007 qui, comme les précédents rapports annuels de l’organisation, dresse un état des droits humains dans le monde.

• The commission communication «towards a general policy on the fight against cyber crime»

  23 May 2007, by European Commission
  The rapid development of Internet and other information systems has given rise to a completely new economic sector and to new rapid flows of information, products and services across the internal and external borders of the EU. This has opened many new possibilities for criminals. A pattern of new criminal activities against the Internet, or with the use of information systems as a criminal tool, is clearly discernible. These criminal activities are in permanent evolution, and legislation and operational law enforcement have obvious difficulties in keeping pace. The intrinsic cross-border character of this new type of crime creates a need for improved cross-border law enforcement cooperation.

• Croatia’s EU Membership submitted to improved collaboration with UN Yugoslavia Tribunal

  23 April 2007, by European Parliament
  The European Parliament’s (EP) Progress Report on Croatia requests the next possible EU accession country to cooperate better with the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The report, drafted by Austrian Socialist MEP Hannes Swoboda has been adopted by the EP’s Foreign Affairs Committee on 27.3.2007 and will be discussed by the plenary next Wednesday, 25.4.2007.

• Desafío(s) 3-4 : EMERGENCIAS URBANAS

  27 de febrero de 2007, por Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos
  …Europe and Occidental states in general, are facing situations that recognizes their origins in the different aspects produced by the globalization process. The urban emergencies analyzed in this publication thanks to the opinions, contributions and information given by all the collaborators, constitute the most evident and recent signs of situations of emergency and exceptional reactions and interventions…

• The politics of protection : sites of insecurity and political agency

  20 December 2006, by Dobson Andrew, Huysmans Jef , Prokhovnik Raia
  This book poses the question of political agency in relation to some of the most significant questions raised in relation to the governance of insecurity and protection in the contemporary world. The authors have identify and explore five issues that challenge or raise a number of questions about the traditional notion that states are to protect their citizens through retaining a monopoly over the legitimate use of violence

• Iraq and Peace in the World

  18 September 2006, by EOS Gallup Europe
  The underlying objectives of this Flash Eurobarometer survey, carried out in October 2003 for the European commission in the 15 Member States of the European Union, are to sound out European citizen’s opinions on the justification of military intervention and war in Iraq. It is to be placed in the context prevailing in October 2003: the intensification of political violence, the growing conflict...It measures perceptions on reconstruction and issues of security in Iraq.

• Assistance for rebuilding the police force in Afghanistan

  29 May 2006, by German Federal Foreign Office, German Federal Ministry of the Interior
  After decades of war and destruction Afghanistan entered a new era in December 2001: with the signing of the Petersberg Accord, the foundation for the political and economic reconstruction of the country had been laid. Since then Germany has contributed significantly in the rebuilding of Afghanistan, both financially as well by way of personnel. Two aspects of this cooperation stand out in particular: the commitment of the Bundeswehr (German Federal Armed Forces) to guarantee security and stability in the country and Germany’s assumption of responsibility for the reconstruction of Afghanistan’s police force.

• «On Regulations against Incivilities»

  29 May 2006, by Université Autonoma de Barcelona
  A number of recent criminologies have given particular influence to the control of urban disturbances, in Europe and in all Western big cities. Barcelona is a particular case of it, trough a municipal bylaw which came into effect on last January. This by law is responsible to introduce exceptionalist practices as a way to react against incivilities as emergencies.

• In Times, in and as Global Conflict

  23 May 2006, by ephemera collective
  In this issue of ephemera we publish a range of papers that engage with theory and politics in the organisation of global conflicts. Across these works, time - the time of their objects, and the time of their objects’ having been thought as such - are rendered salient. Here, conflict - as itself a site of object and of subject - theory, episteme, practical life - is revealed, intimately, emergent as the organisation of these. To point to the global of conflict, then, harks as much to the schizoid and conflictual singularities of the present of historical thought thinking its own objects - its possibilities and its pasts - as it harks to singularities in the geographies and scalings of its present.

• Kriegsökonomien und Schatttenglobalisierung

  7. Februar 2006, von Lock Peter
  The hypothesis underlying the debate about « new wars » that there are fundamental differences between countries classified as « in war » and those « not in war » is questioned throughout the paper. The economic conditions and constraints war fighting parties face in the current environment do not disappear after a peace is negotiated. This explains that as rule to outcome of internationally supervised elections lend legitimacy to former warlords and other thugs. The continuation of their violence-based clientelistic power remains the only source for individual security.

• Les entreprises de coercition para-privées : de nouveaux mercenaires ?

  12 December 2005, by Cultures & Conflits
  Comment analyser et nommer les entreprises qui « vendent de la sécurité », au-delà du gardiennage et de la sécurité de la propriété privée des individus ? Comment comprendre le phénomène de la « privatisation » de certaines fonctions dites régaliennes concernant les activités de police, de renseignement, de contrôle des personnes aux frontières, de vente d’armes, de conseil en stratégie et opérations « anti-subversives », d’accompagnement de convois humanitaires en territoire « hostile », de communication et de coordination des troupes en temps de guerre et in fine de troupes de combat appuyant les troupes ordinaires ?

• De Bob Denard aux sociétés militaires privées à la française

  11 December 2005, by Chapleau Philippe
  Peut-on parler de « sociétés militaires privées françaises » ? A l’heure où les prestataires de services militaires américains, britanniques et sud-africains affichent une incroyable prospérité et raflent, sur le seul marché moyen-oriental, des contrats d’une valeur totale de près de quatre milliards de dollars pour l’année 2004, l’ambition affichée par certaines entreprises françaises de se mesurer aux PMC (Private Military Companies) anglo-saxonnes, d’une part, incline à la perplexité et, d’autre part, fait s’interroger sur leurs capacités, la qualité de leurs services et leurs chances dans un environnement dominé par des sociétés comme Vinnell, DynCorp, MPRI, Sandline, Kroll, Task, Cubic, AirScan...

• Définir le mercenaire puis lutter contre le mercenariat « entrepreneurial » : un projet de gouvernement

  11 December 2005, by Leverchy Christian
  De gauche à droite sur les bancs de l’Assemblée nationale et du Sénat ou à longueur de colonnes de presse s’exprime, dorénavant, le consensus selon lequel l’utilisation de mercenaires dans les conflits armés ou les situations troublées est un phénomène qui aggrave la violence. Les nouvelles générations de lansquenets déstabiliseraient non seulement les Etats mais génèreraient même mécaniquement des atteintes aux droits de l’homme par le recours régulier à des trafics illicites d’armement notamment d’armes légères et de petit calibre (ALPC). Dès lors, légiférer contre cette pratique serait devenu urgent, indispensable mais aussi possible. Il n’en demeure pas moins que cette présente posture politique et morale ne peut faire oublier l’attitude ambivalente que nombre d’Etats ont adopté au fil du temps vis-à-vis de ces soldats de fortune.

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