Private screening of the Oscar-nominated, Emmy-shortlisted film "My Enemy, My Brother", which HSC co-sponsored and impact produced.
Read More »HSC at the Emmys and with the Consul-General
On September 21st, Human Security Centre Director Dr. Dwayne Menezes attended the News and Documentary Emmy award ceremony in New York. Dr. Menezes represented HSC at the ceremony promoting the film “My Enemy, My Brother”, which was nominated for a ...
Read More »Ahead of Chilcot: Revisiting the Controversies of the Iraq War
The Chilcot Inquiry is unlikely to add much value to a discussion that has long been hijacked by historical revisionism and hindsight hysteria.
Read More »Facing the Future: the US 2017 Defence Budget
The Pentagon must be granted sufficient funding to simultaneously fight today’s wars, prepare for contingences, fund modernisation and invest for the long term. But dysfunctional Washington politics stand in the way.
Read More »Sexual violence against women in conflict: an extreme manifestation of violence and a weapon of war
Time and again conflicts erupt during which alarmingly high rates of rape and other forms of sexual violence are being recorded.
Read More »Press release: Britain ends combat operations in Afghanistan
Yesterday marked the end of combat operations in Afghanistan for the British armed forces. Over 13 years of conflict have ensued since the US invoked Article 5 of the Washington Treaty in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Afghanistan ...
Read More »Interpreting Reality: Information Wars in Ukraine
A balanced assessment of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict is a rather challenging task for policy-makers. This is in large part because the views and data collected from both sides comes under the influence of two opposing public discourses. On the one hand, Russia is perceived as the aggressor breaking the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
Read More »A Soldier in a Child
I was to interview three individuals (names have been changed for this article) – Nicole, the NGO’s director, James and Jamal (both support staff of TRIPOD) – the last of whom was to take the spotlight of the interview.
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