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Our responsibility to respect the rights of others: legality and humanity
States tend to be concerned about self-definition, and immigration law arose as one attempt to mark out territory by establishing a regulatory …
Terror, reason and rights
The history of emergency legislation is not a proud one. From the appointment of dictators rei gerundae causa in the days of …
Safety and security
People talk about a trade-off between security and liberty. But what do they mean by security? We know what’s at stake in …
Anti-terrorism laws: balancing national security and a fair hearing
Increasingly since 9/11, national security questions have arisen in civil litigation, in areas as diverse as immigration, family law and contractual disputes. …
Transplantation
In the first edition of this volume, I suggested that in liberal–democratic states, it is a spiral, not a pendulum, that best …
Introduction
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and subsequent attacks in many other parts of the world have resulted in an increased …
The criminal law and its less restrained alternatives
Many societies instinctively and quickly reach for the criminal law as a response to terrorism. Th e first part of this chapter …
Narrating religious insecurity: Islamic–Western conceptions of mutual threat
One does not need to travel very far these days before encountering complaints that Islam poses ‘a fundamental threat to the survival …
‘Prevent’ responses to jihadi extremism
Changes in the nature of jihadi terrorism, its likely proponents, and its potential temporal and geographical extent have tipped counter-terrorism more towards …
Terrorism and governance in South Africa and Eastern Africa
Because of its sheer scale, terrorism is seen as the kind of crime which states should prevent rather than prosecute. Many therefore …
Moderate secularism, religion as identity and respect for religion
One of the features of the ‘cultural turn’ in social studies and of identity politics is that, while many think one or …
Women and Countering Violent Extremism
While the role of women and the importance of gender mainstreaming in peace building is becoming increasingly accepted (most notably through the …