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Digital Rights are Human Rights
Printer friendly version here. Tim Hardy is a technical writer, commentator, activist and PS21 Global Fellow. He runs the website Beyond Clicktivism and tweets at @bc_tmh In November 2014, the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Flavia Pansieri declared that the changes in digital communications over the last two… Listen ⇢
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The rise and rise of “National Innovation Foundations”
Download a PDF of the report. Stephen Ezell is the director of Global Innovation Policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Frank Spring is a PS21 Global Fellow and an independent consultant for innovation, politics and security issues. He tweets at @frankspring. Katarzyna Bitka is an economist, working on innovation policy within… Listen ⇢
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University attack brings stark lessons for Kenya
Printer-friendly version here. Edward Wanyonyi is a Security, Leadership and Society Fellow at University of London-Kings College. The recent attack at Garissa University in North Eastern Kenya by Al Shabaab came as a surprise to many Kenyans and the world. Launched at the crack of dawn on Thursday April 2nd… Listen ⇢
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Organizing in the 21st Century
Late last month, author and PS21 global fellow Linda Tirado participated in a panel discussion titled Organizing in the 21st Century at the 2015 Virginia Festival of the Book. Drawing from her own lived experience, she discussed the issues that affect low-income and working-class communities and the intersection of… Listen ⇢
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The Islamic State in Libya: Between Unity and Fragmentation
Printer-friendly version here. Dr. Alia Brahimi is an academic, analyst and commentator specialising in the politics of the Middle East. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford University Changing Character of War Programme at Pembroke College and a PS21 Global Fellow. ‘We have an appointment with Rome, God… Listen ⇢
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The 21st Century Clash of Christian and Islamic Cultures
Printer-friendly version here. David Murrin is the author of Breaking the Code of History, the culmination of decades of personal research across a wide range of disciplines. David compellingly argues that human behaviour is not random, but determined by specific, quantifiable and predictable patterns fuelled by our need to survive… Listen ⇢
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Deepnet: is the “dark web” good or evil?
Printer-friendly version here. Mike Gillespie is Director of cyber research and strategy at The Security Institute, Managing Director of Advent IM Consultancy and a member of the CSCSS Global Select Committee on Cyber Security The worldwide web wasn’t really designed, as such – it grew out of itself and so privacy… Listen ⇢
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Walking the Tightrope: Turkey in the New Middle East
Printer-friendly version here. Enea Gjoza is a policy analyst specializing in foreign policy and criminal justice. He is also an intelligence research fellow with Young Professionals in Foreign Policy and a writer for Young Voices. The Arab Spring and subsequent events have dramatically re-arranged the power dynamics of the Middle East. Formerly… Listen ⇢
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Burying Richard III, England’s last post-apocalyptic warlord
The death in battle of a king known to history for badly needing a horse and for a hunched back, marked the end of the medieval period in England. His replacement, Henry Tudor — the victor at Bosworth Field in 1485 who became Henry VII — is seen as a… Listen ⇢
Executive Director, Peter Apps.
Peter Apps is executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century (PS21), a global defence columnist for Reuters and presenter of the “Facing Coming Storms” global defence podcast from PS21 and the British Army’s think tank the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research (CHACR).
