There are individual activists and political groupings who believe violent action is legitimate and use the circumstances to actively drive such behaviour.
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Reforming the police is possible, but it depends on applying pressure on politicians.
The protests carried on for days and continue to simmer in a country whose social fabric has been torn by toxic masculinity and a violent colonial past.
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It's time to talk about police in Nigeria and the issues around special forces.
Demonstrations by Macedonian villagers in the 1980s, which helped spark the end of Communist rule in the former Yugoslavia, hold vital lessons for Americans peacefully protesting for police reform.
On Oct. 25 Chile will decide whether to replace its dictatorship-era constitution with a new one written wholly by the Chilean people. The vote shows how protests can change the course of a nation.
For young Nigerian protesters on social media and on the streets, #ENDSARS is as much an expression of a will to modernity as it is a yearning to be treated with dignity.
The dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad is the first step, but Nigeria needs a complete reform of its police.
Other agencies or officials can do much of what police do now. So let’s disband police forces and replace them with local community organizations.
George Floyd's death has thrust police unions into the spotlight amid a growing recognition that they are not part of the U.S. labor movement but a narrow interest group pursuing their self-interests.
Around the world, policing — as an institution — is being challenged. But calls to defund the police will fall short if they do not address the history of policing.
Thanks to some serendipity and fortuitous timing, the images emerging out of Selma had a uniquely powerful effect on the nation.
Violence in the criminal-justice system isn't limited to police. It's time to pay more attention to violent deaths within state prisons.
A political scientist says the protests against police violence that have swept the US signal welcome social change -- and could dramatically alter the work she's done for five years.
The killing of George Floyd has sparked debates in Jamaica about police brutality – and class and colour.
Unrest in the US looks familiar to Latin Americans, who are accustomed to resisting undemocratic governments – and to their protest movements being met with violent suppression.
When it comes to making law enforcement professionals less likely to resort to use of force, higher education goes a long way, research shows.
To use body cameras effectively, police need to be guided by law, not policy.
Across the United States, police are shielded from both public and departmental accountability by multiple layers of contractual and legislative protections.
Young men make up the majority of black people killed by police in the US. That's fed a perception that black women are somehow shielded from the threat of police violence. They aren't.
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Senior Lecturer, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Alberta
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Assistant Professor of Justice Studies and Sociology, Norwich University
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Post Doctorate Researcher under the DANIDA funded project on militarisation, sustainable growth and peace in Uganda., University of Copenhagen
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Senior lecturer, Obafemi Awolowo University
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Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in Modern History, University of York
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Associate Professor (Archaeology), University of South Africa
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Professor and head of the Department of Journalism, Film and Television, University of Johannesburg
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Director of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge and Professor of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg
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PhD Candidate, University of Stirling
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Vising Researcher, Global Governance Unit, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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Consultant World Health Organisation Health Security, Professor and Chair of Policing and Criminal Justice Western Sydney University and Senior Research Associate of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge, University of Johannesburg, Western Sydney University
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
