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What do we do about forgotten Scotland?, Gerry Hassan oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of October 25th 2010, Charles Shaw and Mark Weiss Book review: The Return of the Public by Dan Hind, Stephen Whitehead New reports allege extensive Iranian involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Daniel C Giacopelli A funding struggle for an HIV prevention in women’s hands, Roger Tatoud Good people with cameras, Michael Dominski Insights from the Afghan field, Anatol Lieven 1325: an exciting moment , Lyric Thompson Rape in war: the time for 'never again' is now, Theresa de Langis 1325 and the violent world of small arms, Jasmin Galace Search openDemocracy
What do we do about forgotten Scotland?, Gerry Hassan Most politics is not about the art of lying or spinning. It is about telling partial truths or half-truths which often conceal the wider reality. Examples include the idea that the 1960s are the source of most of our problems, the start of the... Read more » oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of October 25th 2010, Charles Shaw and Mark Weiss A Roundup of News from Mexico Is it too late to catch up with the Mistakes? There have been gunfights outside the American school and a big private university. The mayors of two suburbs have been murdered. And a grenade has been thrown... Read more » Book review: The Return of the Public by Dan Hind, Stephen Whitehead The Return of the Public provides a welcome set of proposals to democratise public debate through a system of citizen-led editorial commissioning, but the focus on the mass media ignores the potential of other more democratic channels of... Read more » New reports allege extensive Iranian involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Daniel C Giacopelli Details of direct Iranian influence and clandestine military activity in the conflict zones of Afghanistan and Iraq were revealed in separate reports this weekend, including allegations that Tehran regularly funnels cash to top aides of Afghan... Read more » A funding struggle for an HIV prevention in women’s hands, Roger Tatoud Attendees at the 18th International AIDS conference held in Vienna in July 2010 felt a tremor of hope when Prof. Salim Abdool Karim received a standing ovation following the announcement that a vaginal gel containing the anti-HIV drug tenofovir... Read more » Good people with cameras, Michael Dominski It is a sign of our times, the digital revolution, that well-meaning men and women are riding out from the west, their saddlebags filled with cameras and good intentions. They bring back stories of good deeds – some of which screen at the 54th... Read more » Insights from the Afghan field, Anatol Lieven If books like the ones under review had appeared in 2002, and been read by Western commanders and officials, they might have changed the course of the Afghan War. Even today, should a US administration ever be able to disentangle itself from the... Read more » 1325: an exciting moment , Lyric Thompson In the month since UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon issued a call to action asking member states to redouble their commitments to implementing UNSCR 1325, a number of new commitments have been made and National Action Plans announced. In the final... Read more » Rape in war: the time for 'never again' is now, Theresa de Langis Will the UN Security Council remember the women of the DRC when it meets to commemorate the anniversary of Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security this week? A few weeks ago Congolese militia commander, Sadoke Kokunda Mayele, was... Read more » 1325 and the violent world of small arms, Jasmin Galace In 2007 three women from civil society organisations in the Philippines launched a campaign to make the control of small arms central to reducing violence and promoting peacebuilding in their country. We conducted workshops, held regional... Read more » openDemocracy RECOMMENDS The Return of the Public Dan Hind openDemocracy NEWS openDemocracy event London: oD author Charles Shaw asks 'Who's addicted to the War on Drugs?' You are invited to join Charles Shaw, openDemocracy author and activist and acclaimed documentary maker and criminologist, Roger Graef for an evening of discussion and testimony of drugs policy and criminal justice on: 7pm, Tuesday 16 November 2010 The Hub, 34b York Way, Kings Cross, London, N1 9AB Limited number of places: please email info@opendemocracy.net to reserve a place. What is it that maintains our mixed up and contradictory drugs policies – often in the face of expert consensus? What is the balance of damage being done to individuals by drugs and the system of punishing drug taking? What should our social and personal attitudes towards different drugs be if there were fuller decriminalisation?  And why are attitudes to alcohol and tobacco so different? Read more on Charles Shaw's projects  The openDemocracy Drug Policy Forum The Unheard Voices Project     • View comments •
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