Conflict - Conflit

Articles

• The politics of protection : sites of insecurity and political agency

  20 December 2006, by Dobson Andrew, Huysmans Jef , Prokhovnik Raia
  This book poses the question of political agency in relation to some of the most significant questions raised in relation to the governance of insecurity and protection in the contemporary world. The authors have identify and explore five issues that challenge or raise a number of questions about the traditional notion that states are to protect their citizens through retaining a monopoly over the legitimate use of violence

• Iraq and Peace in the World

  18 September 2006, by EOS Gallup Europe
  The underlying objectives of this Flash Eurobarometer survey, carried out in October 2003 for the European commission in the 15 Member States of the European Union, are to sound out European citizen’s opinions on the justification of military intervention and war in Iraq. It is to be placed in the context prevailing in October 2003: the intensification of political violence, the growing conflict...It measures perceptions on reconstruction and issues of security in Iraq.

• Assistance for rebuilding the police force in Afghanistan

  29 May 2006, by German Federal Foreign Office, German Federal Ministry of the Interior
  After decades of war and destruction Afghanistan entered a new era in December 2001: with the signing of the Petersberg Accord, the foundation for the political and economic reconstruction of the country had been laid. Since then Germany has contributed significantly in the rebuilding of Afghanistan, both financially as well by way of personnel. Two aspects of this cooperation stand out in particular: the commitment of the Bundeswehr (German Federal Armed Forces) to guarantee security and stability in the country and Germany’s assumption of responsibility for the reconstruction of Afghanistan’s police force.

• «On Regulations against Incivilities»

  29 May 2006, by University of Barcelona
  A number of recent criminologies have given particular influence to the control of urban disturbances, in Europe and in all Western big cities. Barcelona is a particular case of it, trough a municipal bylaw which came into effect on last January. This by law is responsible to introduce exceptionalist practices as a way to react against incivilities as emergencies.

• In Times, in and as Global Conflict

  23 May 2006, by ephemera collective
  In this issue of ephemera we publish a range of papers that engage with theory and politics in the organisation of global conflicts. Across these works, time - the time of their objects, and the time of their objects’ having been thought as such - are rendered salient. Here, conflict - as itself a site of object and of subject - theory, episteme, practical life - is revealed, intimately, emergent as the organisation of these. To point to the global of conflict, then, harks as much to the schizoid and conflictual singularities of the present of historical thought thinking its own objects - its possibilities and its pasts - as it harks to singularities in the geographies and scalings of its present.

• Kriegsökonomien und Schatttenglobalisierung

  7. Februar 2006, von Lock Peter
  The hypothesis underlying the debate about « new wars » that there are fundamental differences between countries classified as « in war » and those « not in war » is questioned throughout the paper. The economic conditions and constraints war fighting parties face in the current environment do not disappear after a peace is negotiated. This explains that as rule to outcome of internationally supervised elections lend legitimacy to former warlords and other thugs. The continuation of their violence-based clientelistic power remains the only source for individual security.

• Les entreprises de coercition para-privées : de nouveaux mercenaires ?

  12 December 2005, by Cultures & Conflits
  Comment analyser et nommer les entreprises qui « vendent de la sécurité », au-delà du gardiennage et de la sécurité de la propriété privée des individus ? Comment comprendre le phénomène de la « privatisation » de certaines fonctions dites régaliennes concernant les activités de police, de renseignement, de contrôle des personnes aux frontières, de vente d’armes, de conseil en stratégie et opérations « anti-subversives », d’accompagnement de convois humanitaires en territoire « hostile », de communication et de coordination des troupes en temps de guerre et in fine de troupes de combat appuyant les troupes ordinaires ?

• De Bob Denard aux sociétés militaires privées à la française

  11 December 2005, by Chapleau Philippe
  Peut-on parler de « sociétés militaires privées françaises » ? A l’heure où les prestataires de services militaires américains, britanniques et sud-africains affichent une incroyable prospérité et raflent, sur le seul marché moyen-oriental, des contrats d’une valeur totale de près de quatre milliards de dollars pour l’année 2004, l’ambition affichée par certaines entreprises françaises de se mesurer aux PMC (Private Military Companies) anglo-saxonnes, d’une part, incline à la perplexité et, d’autre part, fait s’interroger sur leurs capacités, la qualité de leurs services et leurs chances dans un environnement dominé par des sociétés comme Vinnell, DynCorp, MPRI, Sandline, Kroll, Task, Cubic, AirScan...

• Définir le mercenaire puis lutter contre le mercenariat « entrepreneurial » : un projet de gouvernement

  11 December 2005, by Leverchy Christian
  De gauche à droite sur les bancs de l’Assemblée nationale et du Sénat ou à longueur de colonnes de presse s’exprime, dorénavant, le consensus selon lequel l’utilisation de mercenaires dans les conflits armés ou les situations troublées est un phénomène qui aggrave la violence. Les nouvelles générations de lansquenets déstabiliseraient non seulement les Etats mais génèreraient même mécaniquement des atteintes aux droits de l’homme par le recours régulier à des trafics illicites d’armement notamment d’armes légères et de petit calibre (ALPC). Dès lors, légiférer contre cette pratique serait devenu urgent, indispensable mais aussi possible. Il n’en demeure pas moins que cette présente posture politique et morale ne peut faire oublier l’attitude ambivalente que nombre d’Etats ont adopté au fil du temps vis-à-vis de ces soldats de fortune.

• In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All

  15 November 2005, by Annan Kofi
  In September 2005, world leaders will come together at a summit in New York to review progress since the Millennium Declaration, adopted by all Member States in 2000. The Secretary-General’s report proposes an agenda to be taken up, and acted upon, at the summit. These are policy decisions and reforms that are actionable if the necessary political will can be garnered.

• Dans une liberté plus grande : développement, sécurité et respect des droits de l’homme pour tous

  15 November 2005, by Annan Kofi
  En septembre 2005, les dirigeants politiques du monde entier se réuniront à New York pour faire le point des progrès accomplis depuis que tous les États Membres ont adopté la Déclaration du Millénaire en 2000. Le rapport du Secrétaire général propose un ordre du jour que le sommet examinera et auquel il donnera suite. Il s’agit de grandes orientations et de réformes qui peuvent être mises en oeuvre si elles recueillent la volonté politique nécessaire.

• Bibliographie sur le thème des conflits

  9 November 2005, by Veyron-Churlet Aurélie
  Une recension d’ouvrages, d’articles de revues sur le thème des conflits

• Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council COM (2005) 313 final, concerning terrorist recruitment: addressing the factors contributing to violent radicalization

  10 October 2005, by European Commission
  Addressing violent radicalization is part of a comprehensive action programme on the fight against terrorism, the aim of which is to prevent the spreading of ideas and views conducive to acts of terrorism. In this Communication, the Commission reports on its ongoing work in this area and proposes possible ways in which EU policies could be channeled more effectively in order to address the issue.

• A Face and a Name. Civilian Victims of Insurgent Groups in Iraq

  4 October 2005, by Human Rights Watch
  Human Right Watch has issued a report today that accuses the Iraqi insurgents of war crimes. If previous Human Rights Watch reports have documented the use of excessive and indiscriminate force by US forces in Iraq, this report brings to light the ‘widespread and systematic attack’ against the civilian population. It presents the arguments that insurgent forces have used to justify their attacks and challenges their rationale, arguing that these are in clear violation of international humanitarian law.

• Challenge website : the keywords

  14 September 2005, by Challenge
  This article gives the list of the keywords used on the Challenge website. The keywords in bold and italic are linked to the section.

• Notiz zur Rolle privater Militärfirmen in Gewaltsamen Konflikten

  20. Juni 2005, von Lock Peter
  The current debate is limited in scope. A list of problems that should be addressed in this debate is offered. Global social change produces demand for legal ans illegal security services. PMCs are not a new phenomenon., but they become most visible in times of military surplus labour. So far in most cases the text payer foots most bills. A more rigorous cost-benefit analysis is urgently needed taking the cost of manpower formation into account. At the same time the demand for private security reflects the slow pace of adaptation of the military-bureaucratic complex to new tasks.

• Zur Zukunft des Krieges

  20. Juni 2005, von Lock Peter
  The economic logic of neo-liberal regulation of globalisation produces a dynamic sphere of shadow globalisation. The war against terror expands this space beyond the rule of law. Shrinking state capacities accelerate the privatisation of security. The changes in the human habitat and the economic imperatives reigning parties involved in armed conflicts increasingly limit the scope of armed conflict.

• Lock Peter : curriculum vitae

  31 May 2005, by Lock Peter
  Peter Lock graduated in sociology and economics and expanded into political science/international relations with his doctoral degree. Civil-military relations in all its aspects was the focus of his research and teaching during the Cold War period. Ever since the privatisation of security in all its aspects was at the centre of his research interest. As a result «shadow globalisation» as a dynamic social system mirrors the neoliberal transformation of the global economy and the ensuing «transsubstantiation» or «diffusion» of the nation state into markets turned into the current paradigm of the on-going research endeavour.

• Foucault in Guantanamo: National, Sovereign, Disciplinary Exceptionalism

  12 April 2005, by Neal Andrew
  The exception and exceptionalism are not the same thing. Carl Schmitt’s right-wing stitch-up is to suture together the ‘real possibility’ of the exceptional event with the exceptional sovereign response to the actual event, conflating the two. Typically, the idea of an event invokes a temporal sequence of event-response, action-reaction. But the prerogative of Schmitt’s sovereign to decide on the exception inverts this sequence. The conflation of declaring the exceptional event on the one hand, and responding to the exceptional event on the other, effaces the event qua independent causal event, the event-in-itself. Schmitt uses the ideaof the exception to demonstrate the necessity of the exceptional sovereign response. Yet the institutionalised prerogative sovereign decision on the exception precedes the event, and is only justified by the event’s theoretical ‘real possibility’.

• Nouvelles menaces, nouvelles réponses

  31 January 2005, by Alliot-Marie Michèle
  La France, comme l’ensemble de ses partenaires européens et alliés, doit aujourd’hui faire face à des menaces particulièrement complexes et diffuses : le terrorisme, la prolifération des armes de destruction massive, la multiplication des crises régionales. Elles pèsent autant sur la stabilité internationale et sur la sécurité des populations. Au quotidien, dans les situations les plus diverses, sur tous les continents, les hommes et les moyens de la Défense nationale sont mobilisés pour prévenir et contrer ces risques.

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