A question of ethics and technology

 

Scotland Forever by Lady Elizabeth Butler

 

Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado explores four questions central to the development of security related technology. He exames the nature of warfare and the theories surrounding it, questioning the way we view modern military technology.

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Culture, Defence and Security

By Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado

 

Photo of Michelangelo's Pieta by Stanislav Traykov

 

Why discuss culture together with defence and security? One answer might be that culture, an exclusive, frivolous, leisure pursuit of the rich, their flunkies, and social climbers, requires elaborate security to defend its providers and consumers from the righteous anger of the people, whose hard-earned taxes, or lottery losses, are squandered on subsidising fripperies such as opera, ballet, theatre, concerts, and art shows with dead cows in aspic, to which la-di-dah people wear fancy clothes.

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Educating at the Coalface: ICT and work-based learning

By Dr Alan Bruce

 

Living in a time of sustained change and crisis is something to which we are now becoming accustomed. While change and crisis are the staple elements involved in security and emergency contexts, they are not issues associated as standard in everyday life. The traumas of recent times, however, are a powerful reminder of cyclical patterns of growth, recession and transformation in the socio-economic universe we inhabit.

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Training for Total Control in African Skies

By Andrew Rosthorn

 

 

The doomed planes have ranged from the old Czech-built Let L-410 Turbolet workhorse that crashed at Bandundu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2010, killing 20 people after a smuggled crocodile broke loose in the cabin, to a new Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 that crashed into a Cameroon mangrove swamp after a midnight takeoff in bad weather at Douala, killing all 114 passengers and crew in 2007.

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From crisis to carnage

An Utoya memorial

 

White supremacist Curtis Allgier, jailed for murder in 2007

 

Dr. Alan Bruce discusses the remarkable summer for those who work in the realms of innovative learning, security best practice and social change, with the shockingly brutal re-emergence of Europe's ugly white supremacist racism.

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U.S. Intelligence train with videogames

American intelligence agents have made their share of bad calls: the fall of the Berlin Wall, Iraq’s nuclear cache and chronic missteps in Afghanistan are only a few. So in the hopes of honing analysts’ predictive abilities, the spy guys are introducing a new training tactic: videogames.

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Pakistan Taliban declares truce

An anonymous Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan commander told the AP that the group had declared a nation-wide ceasefire in support of ongoing peace talks with the country's government, while Pakistan's military denied reports Tuesday that talks were taking place.

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Illegal foreign purchase of weapons

Hundreds of foreigners and dual-citizens are in Canada with the purpose of creating front companies to procure weapons parts and technologies that they then export to their home countries. And they often go unpunished.

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Dagestan: don't book it, or Thomas Cook it

The republic of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea that is the most explosive place in Russia - and in Europe. There are bomb attacks almost daily, shootouts between police and militants, tales of torture and of people going missing.

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