The good, the bad, the drones: A Strife 5-part series
By Joana Cook, Managing Editor, Strife BAE Taranis UAV, Model on display at Farnborough Airshow 2008 (Photo by Mike Young) By 2025 it is estimated to be an industry worth $82 billion USD and...
View ArticleThe unforgiven: How do soldiers live with their guilt?
By Kevin Sites: When soldiers kill in war, the secret shame and guilt they bring back home can destroy them November 2004, against a shattered wall in south Fallujah in Iraq, with video rolling, I...
View ArticleCall for submissions for Strife special series: WWI in your life
The First World War engaged governments, soldiers, civilians, medical and support personnel from various countries and backgrounds around the world. It affected the way we view conflict and initiated...
View ArticleCall for papers: A world in flux? Analysis and prospects for the U.S. in...
A world in flux? Analysis and prospects for the U.S. in global security Call for papers US Foreign Policy Research Group and Strife first annual conference March 4, 2015 at King’s College London The...
View ArticleWhy is everyone Hitler?
By Thomas Colley: Why do so many political leaders seem incapable of analogising undesirable behaviour to anyone other than Hitler and the Nazis? Conflict in Ukraine has seen the protagonists base...
View ArticleThe cartography of conflict in the work of Marcus Jansen
By Tom de Freston: Marcus Jansen, solo show at Lazirides Gallery: ‘Whistleblower’ – 11 Rathbone Place, London W1T 1HR. Until Thursday 20th of November 2014 Marcus Jansen is a cartographer of conflict....
View ArticleAid and Conflict: Britain’s approach
By Isobel Petersen: UK aid bound for the Philipines after Typhoon Haiyan, November 2013.Photo: MoD, Sgt Ralph Merry (CC 2.0) There is a trend across Western governments, and the UK is no exception, to...
View ArticleThe World’s Forgotten Migrants
By Isobel Petersen: A displaced woman sits on a bed next to the remnants of her burnt house in Khor Abeche, South Darfur. April, 2014. Photo: Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID (CC 2.0) Human migration...
View ArticleReligious festivals as a source of community cohesion and conflict
by Revd. A.J.D. Gilbert, Senior Chaplain, RAF Halton And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhood’s cheap whiles any speaks That fought...
View ArticleThe good, the bad, the drones: A Strife 5-part series
By Joana Cook, Managing Editor, Strife BAE Taranis UAV, Model on display at Farnborough Airshow 2008 (Photo by Mike Young) By 2025 it is estimated to be an industry worth $82 billion USD and...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘A Great Perhaps? Colombia: Conflict and Convergence’
Reviewed By: Kate Dinnison D. Davis, D. Kilcullen, G. Mills and D. Spencer, A Great Perhaps? Colombia: Conflict and Convergence, (London, UK: Hurst&Co. Publishing), 2016; ISBN-13: 978-1849046282...
View ArticleCrossing Borders: Technology and Migration in an Interconnected World –...
By: Johan Lammers In times of travel bans and Brexit, as a foreign student from The Netherlands where the polls are led by a party whose official stance on immigration is literally ‘zero asylum seekers...
View ArticleStrife Feature – The Incapable ‘Lone Ranger:’ Understanding Inequality and...
By Zach Beecher Residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk, queuing to receive food supplies, in Damascus, Syria, in 2014 (Credit Image: Uncredited/AP) Central to understanding the...
View ArticleStrife Review – Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer: Refugees, Storytelling and the...
By Anna Plunkett Khaled Hosseini (Credit Image: UNHCR/Paul Wu) “I have heard it said that we are the uninvited. We are the unwelcome. We should take our misfortune elsewhere. But I hear your mother’s...
View ArticleWill India and Pakistan Go To War?
By Saawani Raje 28 February 2019 “Will India and Pakistan ever go to war?” This question has gained new significance since Pakistan shot down two Indian fighter jets early on the morning of 27th...
View ArticleA Matter of Survival: How the Trade War will Shape China’s Future
By Francesca Ghiretti and Lloyd Yijue Liu 2 May 2019 The trade war between the US and China is just the tip of the iceberg of deeper differences that will have complex ramifications (Manufacturing.net)...
View ArticleThe Road to Oligarchic Peace: Comparing the Nashville Conventions of 1850 and...
by Daria Platonova During the Orange Revolution, the people of Ukraine spontaneously took to the streets in what would become known as the country’s “first” Maidan (Image credit: WikiMedia/Sirhey). In...
View ArticleWhy do so few Scholars Study the Intersection of Climate and Security?
by Matthew Ader Climate change or security, a question of the one or the other? (Image credit: Lisa Benson) I have had two and a half hours of teaching on climate change and security in two years, and...
View ArticleStrife Series on Climate Change and Conflict – Introduction
by Gemma MacIntyre Studies show a direct correlation between climate and violent conflict (Image credit: Image: Reuters/Amit Dave) In recent decades, climate change has been recognised as an important...
View ArticleCan a Tropical Bird Take the Jungles of Colombia out of the ‘Conflict Trap’?
by Andrés Felipe Gómez González The guianan cock-of-the-rock, endemic to the tropical rainforests of northern South America, abounds in the jungles of Guaviare. (Image credit: Almir Cândido de Almeida)...
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