Brookings: Fighting Radicalism, Not Terrorism: root causes redefined

In the years since the September 11th attacks, Western policymakers, analysts and academics have debated the best approaches to confronting and ending terrorism. Brookings Fellow Omer Taspinar argues that the global fight against extremist violence must move beyond the “war on terror” to a broader strategy of fighting radicalism with human development – an approach [...]

HRF: Impact of immigration law’s ‘terrorism bars’ on asylum seekers and refugees in the United States

Since 2001, U.S. immigration policy changes intended to protect the United States from terrorists are hurting thousands of legitimate refugees who pose no threat to the United States. The study by Human Rights First documented cases in which people have been inexplicably labeled terrorists.

Delay in Guantanamo closure due to White House failings report says

The likely failure to meet the self-imposed deadline for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility  is due to several missteps by the Obama administration, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for American Progress (CAP). In the report, the CAP criticized the White House for several shortfalls in its decision-making process. [...]

British Journal of Criminology Special Issue on Criminology and the war on terror

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The Transformation of Violence in Iraq British Journal of Criminology Advance Access published on May 28, 2009 Br J Criminol 2009 49: 609-627; doi:10.1093/bjc/azp022 [Abstract]
 
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    Jude McCulloch and Sharon Pickering

Pre-Crime and Counter-Terrorism: Imagining Future Crime in the ‘War on Terror’ British Journal of Criminology [...]

Fragile states and the international response: in pursuit of security or development?

New paper by Koen Vlassenroot over at Egmont.

New CRS reports and congressional hearings released

Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (6 Oct. 2009)
Africa Command: U.S. Strategic Interests and the Role of the U.S. Military in Africa (2 Oct 2009)
Removing Aliens from the United States: Judicial Review of Removal Orders (25 September 2009)

The records of several noteworthy congressional hearings that were held in the past two years have been [...]

Interesting articles

Beth van Schaack – International Criminal Law & its Enforcement
This chapter, to appear in the 2nd edition of Beth Van Schaack & Ron Slye’s International Criminal Law & Its Enforcement (Foundation Press 2010), covers the crime of torture under international criminal law. It begins with a doctrinal discussion of the elements of torture as elucidated [...]

PM v Khadr

Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen captured by US forces in Afghanistan at the age of 15 and imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for 7 years, recently succeeded in convincing the Canadian Court of Appeal to order the Canadian government to request his immediate repatriation by the US  (Khadr v. Prime Minister of Canada 2009 FCA 246). Until [...]

OSCE ODIHR Handbook on the Fight Against Torture + APT compilation of torture laws

* The Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) has  announced a new research tool as well: the Compilation of Torture Laws, now accessible here. The Compilation gives an overview of national laws of each State Party, such as Constitutions, Penal Codes, Criminal Procedure Codes, Anti-Torture Acts or other relevant laws. It includes the text [...]

OSCE ODIHR Handbook on the Fight Against Torture + APT compilation of torture laws

* The Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) has  announced a new research tool as well: the Compilation of Torture Laws, now accessible here. The Compilation gives an overview of national laws of each State Party, such as Constitutions, Penal Codes, Criminal Procedure Codes, Anti-Torture Acts or other relevant laws. It includes the text [...]