TERRORISM
The Club of Madrid, an independent organization dedicated to strengthening democracy around the world, is holding an international summit on democracy, terrorism and security on the 11th March, the anniversary of the Madrid bombings. The summit aims to gather together former and current Heads of State and Government, decision and policy makers, the world's leading experts on democracy, terrorism and security, and citizens from around the world.
Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor Mary Kaldor, Director of the Global Civil Society Programme at the London School of Economics and Fares Braizat, a polling expert at the Centre for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan, to discuss the various definitions and responses to terrorism around the world and asks if an Arab idea of terrorism constitutes something radically different from Western notions and, if so, what can we learn from this?
SINGLE WOMEN
Jan MacVarish's latest paper, Understanding the 'Popularity' of Living Alone, contains the results of her 10 years' study of single women. The research looked at the representation and identity of single women: are they independent, responsible and strong social pioneers who are at the vanguard of gender change? Or do they really live up to the Bridget Jones stereotype of having unchanged bed sheets, an empty fridge and a morbid pre-occupation with dying alone, undiscovered and devoured by pet Alsatians?
Laurie Taylor speaks to Jan MacVarish, researcher at the School of Sociology, University of Kent, about what she suggests is a powerful cultural prejudice that is willing the single woman into happiness alone and the disjunction between that and the way they are actually living their lives.
Additional information:
Professor Mary Kaldor
Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London Schoolof Economics (LSE)
New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era
Publisher: Polity Press
ISBN: 0745620671
Global Civil Society: An Answer to War
Publisher: Polity Press
ISBN: 0745627587
openDemocracy.net
An online global magazine of politics and culture.
Fares Braizat
Polling expert at the Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan
Jan MacVarish
Post-graduate researcher at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent
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