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Show Racism The Red Card: potential barriers to the effective implementation of the anti-racist message
This discussion paper focuses on anti-racist groups associated with British Association football (soccer) and the barriers that they face in relation to effective implementation of the anti-racism message and aspirational cultural change. In order to address those issues (above) this essay draws on the educational charity Show Racism the Red Card (SRTRC) and their work to educate individuals in Great Britain though football. It takes an overview of the work of the charity, specifically focusing on three key areas relating to the groupâs mission statement. Concluding comments are made on the current position of SRTRC in light of recent high-profile racist incidents
Moral spaces, and sexual transgression: understanding rape in war and post conflict
When it comes to rape in war, evocative language describing rape as a âweapon of warâ has become commonplace. Although politically important, overemphasis on strategic aspects of wartime sexual violence can be misleading. Alternative explanations tend to understand rape either as exceptional â a departure from ânormalâ sexual relationships â or as part of a continuum of gendered violence. This article shows how, even in war, norms are not suspended; nor do they simply continue. War changes the moral landscape. Drawing on ethnographic research over 10 years in northern Uganda, this article argues for a re-sexualization of understandings of rape. It posits that sexual mores are central to explaining sexual violence, and that sexual norms â and hence transgressions â vary depending on the moral spaces in which they occur. In Acholi, moral spaces have temporal dimensions (âolden timesâ, the âtime of fightingâ and âthese daysâ) and associated spatial dimensions (home, camp, bush, village, town). The dynamics of each help to explain the occurrence of some forms of sexual violence and the rarity of others. By reflecting on sexual norms and transgressions in these moral spaces, the article sheds light on the relationship between âeventâ and âordinaryâ, rape and war
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Itâs not the size, itâs the relationship: from âsmall statesâ to asymmetry
Debate about the definition of âsmall stateâ has produced more fragmentation than consensus, even as the literature has demonstrated its subjectsâ roles in joining international organizations propagating norms, executing creative diplomacy, influencing allies, avoiding and joining conflicts, and building peace. However, work on small states has struggled to identify commonalities in these statesâ international relations, to cumulate knowledge, or to impact broader IR theory. This paper advocates a changed conceptual and definitional framework. Analysis of âsmall statesâ should pivot to examine the dynamics of the asymmetrical relationships in which these states are engaged. Instead of seeking an overall metric for size as the relevant variableâfalling victim in a different way Dahlâs âlump-of-power fallacy,â we can recognize the multifaceted, variegated nature of power, whether in war or peacetime
The impact of external actors on Greek foreign policy 1974-1981
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