Violence, justice and policing

Violence permeates the everyday lives of millions of people across the world and is central to war, conflicts, and the workings of police and justice systems. Some forms of violence are regarded as legitimate and just, while others are seen as illegitimate and unjust.

Research and activites

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    DIIS Working Paper
    2024
    Taxing Burma’s elusive opium flows
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    DIIS Working Paper
    2024
    Afghanistan’s turbulent checkpoint history
  • Soldiers in Ukraine
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    DIIS offers a compact series of a total of four seminars to give you a comprehensive understanding of some of the most pressing issues relating to Ukraine. This seminar discusses the challenge of dealing with acute security threats and reforming a state at war
  • Building in Kyiv, Ukraine
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    DIIS offers a compact series of a total of four seminars to give you a comprehensive understanding of some of the most pressing issues relating to Ukraine. At this seminar, we take a closer look at how Russian occupation of the temporarily occupied territories in Ukraine has been accompanied by strategies and policies to change the composition, both physically and mentally, of these territories
  • Russian troops in Popasna, Ukraine
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    DIIS offers a compact series of a total of four seminars to give you a comprehensive understanding of some of the most pressing issues relating to Ukraine. At this seminar, James Nixey from Chatham House will give a talk on the lessons learned and the prospects for the war in Ukraine
  • Tractor with Danish and Ukrainian flags in Mykolaiv
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    DIIS offers a compact series of a total of four seminars to give you a comprehensive understanding of some of the most pressing issues relating to Ukraine. This seminar will zoom in on Mykolaiv and Denmark’s support to the reconstruction of the city and region
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    DIIS Working Paper
    2024
    New working paper series
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    Journal Article
    2024
    Ghana's overlapping roles in domestic and international security
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    Journal Article
    2024
    A new analytical framework for understanding peacekeeping's diverse effects
  • Reimagining peacekeeping
  • Soldater i Vestafrika
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar sheds light on the myriad challenges shaping West Africa and discusses the recent political upheavals, the growing influence of Russia, and the complex web of migration patterns intersecting the region and beyond
  • Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar brings together leading scholars on humanitarianism to discuss the state of humanitarianism today, its historical entanglements and its future
  • Myanmar people waiting outside prison
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar discusses what it means for people in Myanmar to ‘live with crisis’ in the context of escalating and intersecting forms of crisis
  • Ship and boats with immigrants
    DIIS Auditorium
    What does it mean to rescue at sea? And how does it feel to be rescued? This seminar sheds light on the work of Doctors without Borders on the current situation on the deadliest migration route in the world, the Mediterranean Sea
  • South China sea disputes, water cannon against Philippines
    Livestreaming
    DIIS, Auditorium
    Viewed as an important strategic waterway from a regional and global perspective, the South China Sea has long constituted a critical arena for various maritime and territorial disputes that are now resurfacing.
  • Paying the price
    Report
    2023
    Major new study reveals how al-Shabaab and government-affiliated actors extract wealth from trade and vulnerable populations.
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    Webinar
    Online Zoom meeting
    In this webinar, national and regional practitioners of the women, peace and security agenda exchange their experiences in advancing women’s role in peace governance and challenges for policy implementation in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali and beyond
  • Post-Sovjet Affairs
    Journal Article
    2023
    Before the war in Ukraine the Wagner Group was considered illegal according to Russian law. In the public Russian discourse however, they are increasingly considered to be a legal private company.
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    DIIS Report
    2023
    Lack of local buy-in, funding gaps and weak reporting call ownership of gender-inclusive security policies into question
  • Moral injury and the humanities
    Book Chapter
    2023
    Betraying your own moral beliefs is a particular form of trauma. New book chapter explores the concept of ‘moral injury’ and how the psychological understanding of war has changed over the last twenty years.
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    Book
    2023
    Migrants, brokers and European border governance in Africa
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    Journal Article
    2023
    New Special Issue on Transnational Street Business
  • More powerful by the day
    Report
    2023
    Terror financing and disruption efforts in Somalia
  • Comparative studies in society and history
    Journal Article
    2023
    Privilege, precarity, and colonial nostalgia among european security contractors in East Africa
  • book confronting the Caliphate
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Occupying a square to prevent the Sharia-judge from amputating a teenager’s hand, spraying forbidden graffiti at public buildings, secretly listening to nonreligious music at home, or shouting anti-jihadist slogans with hundreds of others at a public protest: these are only a few examples of a much larger range of nonviolent resistance behavior displayed by civilians who have lived under the repressive rule of jihadists
  • Building in Kyiv, Ukraine
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    DIIS offers a compact series of a total of four seminars to give you a comprehensive understanding of some of the most pressing issues relating to Ukraine. At this seminar, we take a closer look at how Russian occupation of the temporarily occupied territories in Ukraine has been accompanied by strategies and policies to change the composition, both physically and mentally, of these territories
  • Soldiers in Ukraine
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    DIIS offers a compact series of a total of four seminars to give you a comprehensive understanding of some of the most pressing issues relating to Ukraine. This seminar discusses the challenge of dealing with acute security threats and reforming a state at war
  • Russian troops in Popasna, Ukraine
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    DIIS offers a compact series of a total of four seminars to give you a comprehensive understanding of some of the most pressing issues relating to Ukraine. At this seminar, James Nixey from Chatham House will give a talk on the lessons learned and the prospects for the war in Ukraine
  • Tractor with Danish and Ukrainian flags in Mykolaiv
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    DIIS offers a compact series of a total of four seminars to give you a comprehensive understanding of some of the most pressing issues relating to Ukraine. This seminar will zoom in on Mykolaiv and Denmark’s support to the reconstruction of the city and region
  • Soldater i Vestafrika
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar sheds light on the myriad challenges shaping West Africa and discusses the recent political upheavals, the growing influence of Russia, and the complex web of migration patterns intersecting the region and beyond
  • Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar brings together leading scholars on humanitarianism to discuss the state of humanitarianism today, its historical entanglements and its future
  • Myanmar people waiting outside prison
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar discusses what it means for people in Myanmar to ‘live with crisis’ in the context of escalating and intersecting forms of crisis
  • Ship and boats with immigrants
    DIIS Auditorium
    What does it mean to rescue at sea? And how does it feel to be rescued? This seminar sheds light on the work of Doctors without Borders on the current situation on the deadliest migration route in the world, the Mediterranean Sea
  • South China sea disputes, water cannon against Philippines
    Livestreaming
    DIIS, Auditorium
    Viewed as an important strategic waterway from a regional and global perspective, the South China Sea has long constituted a critical arena for various maritime and territorial disputes that are now resurfacing.
  • banner diis event africa
    Webinar
    Online Zoom meeting
    In this webinar, national and regional practitioners of the women, peace and security agenda exchange their experiences in advancing women’s role in peace governance and challenges for policy implementation in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali and beyond
  • book confronting the Caliphate
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Occupying a square to prevent the Sharia-judge from amputating a teenager’s hand, spraying forbidden graffiti at public buildings, secretly listening to nonreligious music at home, or shouting anti-jihadist slogans with hundreds of others at a public protest: these are only a few examples of a much larger range of nonviolent resistance behavior displayed by civilians who have lived under the repressive rule of jihadists
  • Drought in Somalia Dead animal because of climate change
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar brings together scholars and practitioners to discuss pathways for a broadened climate security agenda on fragile states centered on addressing livelihood and security needs of populations
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    New research
    Increased awareness of preventing war and terrorism in Ghana, and an understanding of the importance of engaging with communities to do good policing. These are two skills Ghanian police officers gain from UN missions.
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    Call for papers
    We invite abstracts and papers that are interdisciplinary and oriented towards providing unique perspectives on natural resource management and conflict in Africa.
  • Mass grave in Bucha, Ukraine
    Livestreaming
    Auditorium, DIIS
    Both national and international investigative teams have already started investigating alleged mass atrocities committed in the war in Ukraine. But how do such investigations operate, and how can war crimes be prevented? Five researchers share their thoughts at this seminar
  • Diis book cover road block politics with picture of military stopping truck for check
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Book launch and reception on new book by Peer Schouten
  • Photo by anonymised photographer from Myanmar
    Webinar
    Webinar on the ongoing struggle for recognition, democracy, and justice in Myanmar.
  • Transnational Jihad – Explaining Escalation and Containment, photo by getmilitaryphotos
    Livestreaming
    Auditorium
    This seminar takes stock of the global jihadi movement 20 years after 9/11. Leading scholars will share their thoughts on the internal debates and divisions within the jihadi movement today.
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    Webinar
    The third webinar on challenges facing field researchers
  • A cemetery in Lesbos with graves of unidentified migrants
    Webinar
    Based on personal experiences Dr. Tamara Last and DIIS Senior Researcher Ninna Nyberg Sørensen discuss the challenges that may affect research and lead to Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) among researchers
  • How can we overcome the root causes of piracy?
    Previous streamed webinar
    A conversation with scholars on maritime security
  • fieldwork in Ethiopia 2019 armed military in car
    Webinar
    This webinar explores the challenges of conducting research in conflict-ridden situations in the contemporary world
  • Does more information save imigrants lives
    Webinar
    Webinar launch of new report about West African migrants’ use of information en route to Europe
  • Everyday Justice in Myanmar - webinar
    Webinar
    9 October 2020, hosted by the London School of Economics
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    Webinar
    Online via Zoom
    Webinar II: Discussion with some of the book’s contributors

Experts