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Using GIS mapping to reframe post-conflict aid distribution- Sri Lanka as a case study
In post-conflict Sri Lanka, aid has not been directed towards areas inhabited by politically and ethnically marginalized groups. As Nara Sritharan explains, the overlap of areas destroyed by the 2004 Tsunami and those most affected by civil conflict allows for an opportunity to study the uneven allocation of aid in more than one instance.
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‘Welcome to Mars’: space colonization, anticipatory authoritarianism, and the labour of hope
Professor Nicole Grove (UH Manoa), a founding member of Security in Context, considers how Mars colonization and its Earth-bound beta tests - with a focus on the UAE's Mars 2117 project - point to mutations in authoritarian forms of governance, where the future functions as a form of collateral for present day legitimacies that are leveraged upon an infrastructure to come.
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War on Development in Syria: Interview with Omar Dahi
Project Director Omar Dahi discusses the 2011 uprisings, the Syrian refugee crisis, and emerging South-South relations.
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Bringing Context to 'Security': the Launch of a New Project
Dominant security narratives in the West tend to obfuscate how security and insecurity are experienced and produced around the world. Centering global perspectives, often marginalized, is essential to understanding the different contexts, scales and registers of global security realities.
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Borders Roundtable: Sneaking through holes to forbidden paradise in the age of COVID-19
Palestinian workers, dependent on crossing into Israel for work, have faced new challenges amid COVID19.
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Borders Roundtable: Policing the Virus: Race, Risk, and the Politics of Containment in Morocco and the United States
From Morocco to the United States, existing physical, social, legal, and economic barriers are compounded by the virus.
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Diplomacy of Masks: China and the Crisis of Populism in South America
Paul Amar explores China's role in South American politics and development in light of COVID19, focusing on how the country leverages right and left leaning policies in the region to aid in its extractive model of cooperation.
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Forum: Militarization 2.0: Communication and the Normalization of Political Violence in the Digital Age
A collection of essays from various authors explores how new information and communication technologies normalize the use of military force through militarization.
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