Halifax International Security Forum uses video to introduce each plenary panel. These short visual essays use a combination of moving images, still images, and popular music to convey appropriate urgency. The videos, together with the written opinion essays and the panel titles themselves, enhance the topics and create an atmosphere that is conducive to constructive and honest conversations that embrace new ideas and inspire action.
How shortwave radio is being used throughout #China to broadcast original reporting independent of the #GOC’s narrative on events such as the #HongKong protests and #Uyghur crisis - @DefTechPat for @DefenseOne ow.ly/Shml50vq6KV
2 weeks ago#PrivateSecurity companies are now “regular fixtures” in conflicts worldwide, but how do they operate? Are they effective? @prof_powell, @jelambert_, and @C_Faulkner_UCF call for deeper understanding of the multi-billion dollar industry. @TheAfricaReport ow.ly/8VNO50vq6Hw
2 weeks agoIn #Mexico, murders of journalists are more so a symptom of pervasive #corruption in government than cartel violence. As Anabel Hernández argues in @DeutscheWelle, increasing attacks on journalists, in Mexico and abroad, should be of international concern ow.ly/YhAj50voNAv
2 weeks ago