Resources

Warpod: Understanding security trends in Europe and Central Asia

In this Warpod episode, we take a step back to look at the trends shaping contemporary security policy with Lord Peter Ricketts and Nargis Kassenova. We discuss what’s changed and what hasn’t since our last episodes, and some of the different approaches being taken to address these challenges.

Beyond feminist foreign policy: Disarmament and demilitarisation

Pragmatism and prevention: Five recommendations for how the UK can reduce conflict through diplomacy, development and security policy

Time to turn around: the decline of UK peacebuilding

Scaling up insecurity? Risks of the UK's persistent engagement strategy in Kenya and Somalia

Different strategy, same mistakes? The UK persistent engagement strategy

Playing with matches? UK security assistance and its conflict risks

'Persistent Engagement', Persistent Risk: The impact of UK security assistance on rights and peace

Saferworld’s Warpod episode 7: Special Forces, private military security contractors and remembrance

In this episode of the Warpod we combine two interviews. In the first we speak to Samantha Crompvoets from the research company, Rapid Context and discuss what the UK can learn from the Brereton inquiry into abuses by Australian special forces in Afghanistan. In the second we speak to Malte Riemann and Norma Rossi, from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and discuss how the increased use of private military contractors has impacted society.