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Volume 12, Issue 1 (2016)

Sabina W. Lautensach
University of Northern British Columbia, Terrace, BC, V8G 4A2, Canada

Dear Reader, As I write this, first official reports confirm the existence of gravitational waves which Albert Einstein predicted a century ago. Ground breaking scientific discoveries such as this reaffirms to me the spatial relatio.

Lea Rekow
Arts, Education & Law Group, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

This paper outlines how Brazil’s latest public security initiative—its highly controversial Police Pacification Campaign (UPP)—is an integral component of a neoliberal political framework that is enacting rapid urbanization pr.

Marcos Alan S. V. Ferreira
Department of International Relations, Federal University of Para´ıba (UFPB), Brazil

The mercenaries and mercenarism are two points of concern for scholars studying the rules of war throughout history. Both in jus ad bellum (JAB) and jus in bellum (JIB) we can find a framework of international la.

Artur Zimerman
Engineering, Modeling and Applied Social Sciences Center (CECS), Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), São Paulo State, Brazil

Land inequality in Brazil is alarming and several poor individuals living in rural areas do not have enough income to survive decently. The struggle to access land should lead to a paradigm shift with social movements leading this p.

Lea Rekow
Arts, Education & Law Group, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

This paper is based on fieldwork undertaken in conjunction with Green My Favela, a land use restoration project that works with informal and vulnerable income sector residents to reclaim chronically degraded public areas by creating.

Lea Rekow
Arts, Education & Law Group, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

As Rio de Janeiro struggles to hold itself together through the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, its much lauded public security Games plan, including its highly controversial police pacification program—long promoted as one of the cor.

Annelie Holgersson
Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Division of Surgery, Center for Disaster Medicine, Umea University, ˚ Umea, Sweden

Background: The scene of a mass-casualty attack (MCA) entails a crime scene, a hazardous space and a great number of people needing medical assistance. Public transportation has been the target of such attacks and involves a high pr.

Xiao Ren
Institute of International Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

This article addresses three research questions by elaborating on how the idea of human security is understood or defined by the government and social actors in China; how the distinction between the “protection” aspect and “e.

John M. Quinn V
Prague Center for Global Health, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Author and Scholar Seug-Whan Choi's "New Explorations into International Relations: democracy, foreign investment, terrorism and conflict" serves as a nexus of interdisciplinary analysis and findings rooted in evidenced based resear.

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Dr. Sabina Lautensach
Human Security Institute, Canada