Security sector reform - a global challenge

Tunisia: security sector reform

Three years since the slogan “no fear after today” spread through Tunisia, police and security forces still operate without any meaningful accountability.

By Robert Joyce

/ 17 Dec 2013

On the trail of Britain's undercover police

Recent revelations have exposed the routine embedding of undercover police officers within environmental and social justice campaigns. But piecing together the public evidence on undercover police tactics brings as many questions as answers.

By Merrick Badger

/ 13 Aug 2013

Deaths in British police custody: no convicted officers since 1969

827 people have died during or following police contact since 2004. Families have struggled hard for justice, encountering multiple failures and police collusion from the IPCC. Why is police accountability failing in this most serious of issues?

By Koos Couvée

/ 9 Aug 2013

Disruption policing: surveillance and the right to protest

From overt, intrusive surveillance to 'network demolition': disruption is central to the strategies of intelligence-led policing. Deployed within the policing of protest, it poses a grave threat to the exercise of dissent.

By Val Swain

/ 8 Aug 2013

Entrepreneurial policing? International policing challenges

The export of policing is a global growth industry in which the UK plays a major role. Recent years have seen the proliferation of private security company involvement in international policing, often staffed by former UK police officers.

By Graham Ellison and Georgina Sinclair

/ 8 Aug 2013

The history of British involvement in Bahrain's internal security

John Yates is only the most recent Briton to be given a public role in Bahrain's internal security. Since founding the Bahraini police force, the British influence is as strong as ever.

By Marc Owen Jones

/ 8 Aug 2013

The military grip on US policing

US domestic law enforcement finds one reason after another to adopt military tactics and tougher approaches to enforce civilian 'security'. What are they - and what's next?

By Ali Winston

/ 8 Aug 2013

When will there be policing for black people in Britain?

The Metropolitan Police spied on the family of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence. Violence against people from black and minority ethnic communities goes on and on.

By Jon Burnett

/ 28 Jun 2013

Israel's loopy logic of exoneration

Israel's recent 'update' on military investigations into civilian deaths in Gaza last November is an affirmation of its deficient institutional and legal practice, with the result of continued impunity for its military and political officials.

By Valentina Azarov

/ 3 May 2013

Conflict at the EU's southern borders: the Sahel crisis

Gradually, EU systems of governance have extended into the southern Mediterranean, linking dynamics in the Sahel with European interests through its borderlands. This could be a test of the EU's foreign policy ambitions. But is the Union ready and capable to act, and if so, what is at stake?

By Simone Tholens and Raffaella Del Sarto

/ 1 Feb 2013

In militias we trust: Libya's conundrum

The rapid disintegration of Muammar al Gaddafi’s armed forces and police meant that the militias born out of the revolution were the only ones equipped to fill the security vacuum left behind. Libya functions, but can civilians wrest control?

By Juan Garrigues

/ 17 Jan 2013

When business and the state co-opt ‘independent’ civil society

How can charities and community organisations provide effective advocacy when they are agents of the state or partners in business?

By Adam Elliott-Cooper

/ 14 Jan 2013