By Scott Edwards. On Monday, 19 November 2012, the Justice and Security Bill reached report stage at the House of Lords. Since its first reading to the House on 28 May 2012, the Bill has been the subject of intense media scrutiny, and rightly so. While a major portion of the Bill aims to strengthen …
By Scott Edwards . April 30th this year marked eight years since the formation of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission to Haiti (MINUSTAH). Continued instability, a poor development record and the major infrastructural setback represented by the 2010 earthquake suggest that the peacekeeping mission is likely to be extended past its October 2012 deadline, with a UN …
By Prithvi Hirani and Scott Edwards. KONY 2012 has succeeded in capturing public imagination across the globe via the medium of social media. The campaign’s 30-minute video clip is slickly produced, emotive and has received over 50 million hits since its launch on the 5th of March, provoking immediate reactionary responses in the impulsive online world of …
By Scott Edwards. On December 3rd last year the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) was officially launched in Caracas. Its broad membership list encompasses all Latin American and Caribbean nations. The inauguration of the new regional organisation was received with much media attention and fanfare across Latin America, but attracted far less …
