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Restorative Justice (RJ) is a way of responding to criminal wrongdoing or more generally – and tentatively – to situations where acts of injustice harm people. It has been articulated as a new approach to justice which challenges the standard, retributive justice of the institutionalised system of courts and laws mainly on
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The new European Commission has just been announced by its President-elect, Jean-Claude Junker. Yes, elected. This is the qualifier that is already common currency among commentators. Inspired by the new provisions of the Lisbon Treaty the main European political groups have organized the electoral campaign for the European Parliament around
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Our information processing tools are an interconnected system: what can an investigative researcher do in order to secure data or protect sources? The TCIJ’s handbook has a few good tips. The handbook on Information Security for Journalists, by Silkie Carlo and Arjen Kamphuis, recently published by The Centre for
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The Lisbon Treaty assigns to each member state a number of seats in the European Parliament based more or less on the relative size of their populations. More for the less, actually. It is well known that small countries are over represented at Strasbourg/Brussels. Each MEP from, say, Malta
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To many people of liberal persuasion, the norm of our times, a ‘police state’ is one of the worst nightmares (unless it is a matter of national security, of course). What a change since the times when authors would express their admiration for the high civilization of a country saying
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Happy New Year of the Horse! Given my interest for Afghanistan I thought it fitting to celebrate the new Chinese year of the horse with these portraits of Afghan steeds, painted for the Qing emperor by the milanese Jesuit missionary artist Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shinin in pinyin) in the 18th
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What do we mean by saying – as in a recent European Parliament resolution – that the international strategy in Afghanistan has failed? Old dictionaries have interesting suggestions about fraud and self-deception. * * * A cultural association in Bologna asked me recently to participate to an event about Afghanistan. They would screen the documentary
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Le elezioni primarie del 23 gennaio 2011 per il candidato a sindaco della coalizione di centro-sinistra hanno visto un sensibile aumento della partecipazione. Smentendo le previsioni – o auspici? – di vari commentatori, 28’313 elettori del centro-sinistra sono andati alle urne, un aumento del 14% rispetto ai 24920 elettori del 2008.
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In questi giorni l’opinione pubblica italiana sta avendo un sussulto di indignazione. Scrittori, giornalisti, sportivi e migliaia di cittadini esprimono solidarietà per una donna, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, condannata a morte nel suo paese, l’Iran, e si appellano alle autorità di quel paese perché sospendano la pena e rivedano
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Concept developed for IPSO (International Psychosocial Organization) and presented at the workshop “Afghanistan: women against oblivion and impunity” organized by ASDHA (Associació per als Drets Humans a l’Afganistan) in Barcelona, 28 January 2010. * * * IPSO is relatively new humanitarian organisation, founded in 2008 by Inge Missmahl, (dipl. analytical psychologist). IPSO