Category: Security
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Podcast – Mitchell Institute Conversations Episode 7
Episode 7 is now available to listen to or download from Apple or Spotify.
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When your face is your boarding pass you are holidaying with Big Brother
Facial-recognition technology may be presented as a convenient way to move through airport security, but Dr Birgit Schippers argues that it poses a serious threat to our human rights and civil liberties.
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Donald Trump, Terrorism and the Twenty-First Century
Professor Richard English takes a look at developments in the US national defence strategy and what it says about the challenge of terrorism.
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The media must respond more responsibly to terrorist attacks – here’s how
Professor Richard English looks at the recent media reaction to the Westminster attack and asks whether the impact from such attacks is made greater by the publicity they receive.
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Parliaments and Their Discontents
Following Khalid Masood’s recent fatal attack on Westminster, guest contributor Dr Tim Wilson from the University of St Andrews asks how, why and when did parliaments emerge as a target of choice?
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Lessons from Northern Ireland: don’t put Islamist extremists in special prison units
Dr Michelle Butler looks at the UK policy of using specialised prison units to prevent radicalisation among Islamist extremists and challenges the wisdom of such an approach based on the use of such units for Irish Republican and Loyalist prisoners in Northern Ireland
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Is anywhere safe? Security challenges after the terrorist attacks in Tunisia
Following the terror attacks in Tunisia, Dr. Debbie Lisle asks why terrorists target Western tourists abroad and whether there is anything global security efforts can do to prevent further attacks.