Urban Homicide in the Netherlands

Data from the Dutch Homicide Monitor shows that the scope and nature of homicide differs between the metropolitan areas of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the Hague, and the rest of the country.

Resilience in the Time of Covid: planning the urban future

Changes to urban planning could provide the key to the long-term protection of our communities and ways of life. But what do these plans offer to bolster the resilience of our urban areas in times of crisis?

Dutch spy chiefs: a new book by Paul Abels

Special Professor of Governance of Intelligence and Security Services, Paul Abels has brought out a new book, called Spionkoppen: spy chiefs. A prosopographic study into the leadership of Dutch security services from 1949 until the present, it presents eleven portraits of Dutch spy chiefs.

UNIFIL & The Beirut Blast

What role should peace operations play in humanitarian disasters?

Sport Diplomacy of Contested Territories

Not all territories enjoy membership of international sports bodies like FIFA. Thus, some territories have been forced to seek alternative avenues for sports diplomacy, such as gaining membership of CONIFA.

The United States First, the Americas Second

The Trump Administration’s decision to appoint one of its own to lead the Inter-American Development Bank is poised to upset the region’s most effective international institution.

Experienced peacekeepers and experts discuss the effects of COVID-19 on peacekeeping

Critical trust, both ways, as a basis for good supervision

Do supervisors of the police need to rethink their role, and if so, why, to what extent and with whom?

Impediments to implementing the women, peace and security agenda