Civil Liberties - new material (82)
01 October 2011
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: a response to the revised Prevent strategy, Jahangir Mohammed & Dr Adnan Siddiqui. Cageprisoners 2011, 26 pages. This report is Cageprisoners response to the UK government’s revised ‘Prevent’ strategy after the original proved to be “counterproductive both in terms of its strategy and its implementation.” It finds that the “revised formulation only seeks to further alienate Muslims from the mainstream of society” because of an “overemphasis on the ideological challenges relating to political violence, and very little recognition of other factors. Indeed, the title of report was chosen precisely because the government‘s latest position signals to Muslims in the UK that it is the government that will decide what is acceptable religious practice and belief, and not the communities themselves.” Among the main features of the report are analyses relating to: the profiling of Muslims; the root causes of political violence; secrecy and spying; the problem of definitions and the law; extremism in other communities; equality, discrimination, sectarianism and human rights; the healthcare sector and the Channel programme:http://www.cageprisoners.com/our-work/reports/item/1873-good-muslim-bad-muslim-a-response-to-the-revised-prevent-strategy
Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011, Keith Krause, Robert Muggah and Elisabeth Gilgen (eds.). Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development Secretariat, 2011. Following the 2008 report of the same title, this extensive study provides “a global overview of violent death across different forms of violence”. Eschewing the more traditional distinctions drawn between organised and interpersonal violence, and conflict and criminal violence, it seeks to provide a more nuanced approach that recognises not all forms of violence can be so neatly distinguished from one another. Chapters provide a general overview; statistical trends and patterns; geographical and situational differences; femicide (the intentional killing of women); and the relationship between armed violence and development: http://www.genevadeclaration.org/measurability/global-burden-of-armed-violence/global-burden-of-armed-violence-2011.html