We need to document and investigate these attacks, including testimonies from health workers, if we are ever to see these war crimes prosecuted.
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Feeding a simple narrative of piracy without a broader look at other maritime security challenges hinders progress in dealing with it.
Tough socio-economic conditions, among others, make kidnapping a thriving business in Nigeria. A strong justice system along with stiff punishment for the crime are needed.
It’s in the public interest to allow families to pay ransoms for the return of their loved ones.
When a coalition of the willing was formed in September 2014 and bombing began against Daesh in Iraq and Syria, things appeared to be moving in the right direction. Daesh is more commonly known as Islamic…
The hunt for the two killers who attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo is over, after a three-day chase and a standoff at a warehouse outside Paris. The two suspects were killed, and the hostage they took…
As the country reels from the Sydney siege and its unhappy end, many will be wondering what can be done for the hostages stuck for hours with the gunman in the Lindt café. The answer may be surprisingly…
As the hostage crisis in Sydney came to a dramatic, deadly end, people were flooded with information. The siege at the building in the city’s Central Business District is over and the gunman is dead. The…
The dramatic siege in Sydney’s Martin Place played out in front of a global audience through real-time reporting by mainstream news outlets abetted by social media. Australian media academic Julie Posetti…
On Saturday October 4 we woke up to the news that looked depressingly inevitable. Alan Henning, a taxi driver from Salford, who had been captured in Syria last December while delivering aid to refugees…
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Global Director of Research, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and Research Associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ), University of Oxford
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St John of God Professorial Chair of Trauma and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Research Fellow, University of Exeter
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Professor Emeritus of Applied Philosophy, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Reader in Political Economy, King's College London
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Professor of Global Health and Development, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, University of Worcester
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Associate Professor of Applied Psychology, Griffith University
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Lecturer in International Relations and Middle East Studies, University of Leeds
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PhD (Maritime Security), University of Greenwich
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SeniorLecturer, Security Sector Consultant-researcher, Department of Political Science, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria, Federal University Lafia
