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International Security

In today’s globalized and fast-changing world, international security issues have morphed beyond political and military conflicts between nations. Cyber-sabotage, asymmetric warfare, terrorism, weapons trafficking, climate change, and depletion of natural resources are all threats that straddle borders and affect international security for all of us. This project puts the perspectives of a younger, global generation front and center. How are they meeting the challenge of these transnational threats?

South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor addresses the United Nations Security Council.
Global Politics
‘We want Africa to take its place’: African leaders call for more representation at UN Security Council
The tail of a missile sticks out in a residential area in Yahidne, near of Dnipro, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. 
Unmaking modern strategy: Part I
A woman stands in a lab wearing a face mask
Critical State
Biology will play ‘a key role in the response to future crises,’ says health security scholar
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Commander of Western military district Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov
Global Politics
Russia to hold biggest war games in nearly four decades
DiNapoli and Nadler
Global Politics
USA Freedom Act co-sponsor calls the bill a good step — but says more must be done
Syrian activist Karam Al Hamad at work. Hamad is currently waiting for permission to leave Turkey to travel to the US for a fellowship.
Conflict
After a year of torture in Syrian jail, an activist finally makes it to the US
Isaac Herzog, at rear in the center, poses for a selfie with supporters of his center-left Zionist Union at their party headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 16, 2015.
Global Politics
As Netanyahu campaigns on Iran, Israelis prepare to vote on their rent
Militant Islamist fighters from the self-named Islamic State take part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province.
Global Politics
How ISIS uses the tools of activism for its own violent goals
SafeMode at SXSW
Justice
The World explores youth activism at SXSW
Protester at anti-Maidan rally this weekend in Moscow sports a pro-Putin t-shirt.
Global Politics
Demonstrators in Moscow seem to be living in a ‘parallel universe’
An man holds a picture in support of Cherif and Said Kouachi during a demonstration against Charlie Hebdo in Kabul. The brothers stormed the French satirical magazine's Paris offices in January, killing 12 people.
Conflict
Pakistan is an unexpected leader in rehabilitating former jihadis
Outside Paris' Le Comedy Club before the performace of comedians Younes and Bambi, aka Younes Depardieuis and Samuel Djian. Younes is Muslim. Samuel is Jewish.
Culture
A Muslim and a Jew walk into a comedy club in Paris — and hilarity ensues
Charlie Hebdo protests
Global Politics
After Charlie Hebdo, what next? Readers weigh in on the long-term effects of the attack
Mohamed was important in Libyan's revolution, helping to defeat and ultimately capture Muammar Gaddafi. His younger brother missed out on Libya's revolution — so he decided to make his own fame by going to Syria to fight in the violent revolution there.
Global Politics
2014 was the year youth protesters found their voice and hacking became an everyday fear
Kemal Kerkuki, commanding officer of Peshmerga forces outside of Kirkuk, speaks with his troops.
Global Politics
The Kurdish Peshmerga helping the US take back territory from ISIS may be kicking out Arabs
Screen grab showing Virtual Syria street being designed.
Technology
How to get right in the middle of the war in Syria — from thousands of miles away
The Leaker - Edward Snowden
Media
I’m not Edward Snowden, I just play him on TV
The digital activist
Global Politics
Meet one of Turkey’s original digital protesters — and see how she’s keeping up the fight for change
Supporters of Beji Caid Essebsi, the Nidaa Tounes party leader and presidential candidate, wave flags and shout slogans during a presidential electoral campaign rally in Tunis on November 15, 2014.
Global Politics
Tunisia looks set to move forward by electing a figure from its past
Peter Slanar, principal of Vienna’s Higher Commercial Vocational School, looks at a news story about his former student Samra Kesinovic who joined up with ISIS in Syria.
Belief
Austria is trying to cut down on its increasing number of ‘jihadi brides’
Rainey takes part in a Sri Lankan parade in Lebanon.
Global Politics
A Sri Lankan girl living in Lebanon isn’t really a citizen of either country
Best friends Ryan and Noor are an unlikely match. He belongs to a religious sect called the Druze, and she is a Sunni Muslim. Kids from different religious groups don't normally hang out in Lebanon, let alone become inseparable friends.
Global Politics
An unlikely pair in Lebanon team up in hopes of creating change
Global Politics
This Syrian girl’s exile has stretched from weeks to years
Screenshot from SANA, the Syrian Arab News Agency.
Global Politics
Syria’s state news agency is wooing Israelis in Hebrew
Doctor Samet Menguc, Secretary General of the Istanbul Chamber of Medicine, reads a press statement decrying the Turkish government's inaction over the plight of Kobane. About two thousand people marched in Istanbul - one of several rallies across the cou
Conflict
Iraqi peshmerga finally enter Kobane, but Turkey’s Kurds still hold their government accountable
Estella and her four-month-old inside their squat house, which is also the headquarters of CasaPound, Italy's largest neo-Fascist movement. The walls are covered in ultra-nationalist posters.
Global Politics
In job-hungry Italy, neo-Fascists await young migrants
Protesters hold masks depicting former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden during a demonstration in Berlin on May 22, 2014. The sentence on the shirt reads, "What has happened to revolution?"
Arts
Laura Poitras’ new documentary tells the Edward Snowden story — with some free computer lessons thrown in
Police officers inspect the area around the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, where a Canadian soldier was shot and killed, on October 23, 2014.
Conflict
Details emerge about the suspect in the Ottawa shooting, but not about potential terrorist ties
A Syrian woman holding her infant waits near an informal border crossing to go back to Kobane, Syria, despite ongoing clashes between ISIS and Kurdish fighters. Many Syrian Kurds are finding Turkey expensive and inhospitable.
Conflict
Kurds threaten dark days for Turkey if Kobane falls
A Chinese national flag, at center, flies upside down on September 29, 2014. Chinese living in mainland China know very little of the pro-democracy protests taking place in Hong Kong.
Conflict
Hong Kong has grabbed headlines around the world — except in Beijing
A protester walks in tear gas fired by riot policemen after thousands of protesters blocked the main street to the financial district outside government headquarters in Hong Kong on September 28, 2014.
Conflict
Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Revolution’ isn’t deterred by clashes with police
Displaced women from the minority Yezidi sect. ISIS is increasingly subjecting women to rape, as well as forced conversions and marriage.
Belief
Some Yazidi women who have escaped ISIS barbarism aren’t hopeful for their futures
A man reacts as he carries a child who survived what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by forces of Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in the Al-Fardous neighborhood of Aleppo, September 19, 2014.
Conflict
US air strikes spark sympathy for Syrian extremist groups in rebel-held areas
Young Iraqi men gather in Baghdad's Jadriya district every Friday night to "drift" — a form of stunt driving where the driver purposefully skids and partially loses control of the car at high speeds.
Culture
Young Iraqis are ‘drifting’ through their country’s crisis
Members of the Hanano team rescue a man who had been trapped inside his home after a bomb hit it in Aleppo, Syria.
Conflict
These young men risk their lives to save others in Syria
Two men hug during the funeral for Libyan activist Tawfik Bin Saud in Benghazi on September 20, 2014. Tawfik was killed, along with a friend, late on September 19, by unknown gunmen as they were driving home in Libya's eastern coastal city of Benghazi.
Conflict
The death of a teen activist marks a new low in Benghazi’s violence
Militant Islamist fighters parade on military vehicles along the streets of northern Raqqa province on June 30, 2014.
Conflict
Meet the young women of ISIS — on the social web
A man purported to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the miltant group ISIS, during what would have been his first public appearance at a mosque in Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet.
Media
ISIS has mastered high-end video production in its new propaganda wing
Justice
He was the son of a top Hamas leader — then he became an Israeli informant
People walk through the rubble of the Prophet Younis Mosque after it was destroyed in a bomb attack by militants from ISIS in the city of Mosul on July 24, 2014.
Conflict
Mosul residents will be listening closely to President Obama’s speech
Michael Bassin, 28, looking at Twitter posts from the extremist group ISIS. Bassin monitored the posts as part of a volunteer effort to ensure there were no mentions online of captured American journalist Steven Sotloff's Jewish and Israeli identity.
Conflict
Murdered journalist Steven Sotloff was Jewish and Israeli — and here’s how his friends tried to cover it up
An anti-government protester kicks a surveillance camera during clashes with police in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on February 7, 2014.
Conflict
What keeps you awake at night?
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron walks to Parliament after leaving Number 10 Downing Street in London on September 1, 2014. Cameron announced new laws on Monday to try to stop radicalized Britons returning from Syria and Iraq launching attacks on Br
Justice
Britain could strip citizenship from those who join Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria
This photo purportedly shows an ISIS class of 2014 martial arts graduation photo, and in the background, a bridge spanning a large river.
Media
A blogger’s hobby becomes a valuable war reporting tool
A table of young men at the Al Atrakchi House cafe in Baghdad's Mansour neighborhood. It's decorated with antique Iraqi furniture and artifacts. The owner says he's created this space to remind Iraqis of their country's rich history in hopes they'll be in
Culture
Why these Iraqi kids are bucking the trend — and their parents — to stay in Baghdad
A militant Islamist fighter uses a mobile to film his fellow fighters taking part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province on June 30, 2014.
Media
The extremists who killed James Foley are as brutal as they are Internet savvy
A woman holds up a placard during a peace rally in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square.
Conflict
After he criticized the Gaza-Israel war, a young Israeli and his girlfriend face isolation
Syrian activist Qusai Zakarya stands as he is recognized by US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at UN headquarters in New York on May 22, 2014.
Conflict
‘In a dark place like Syria, just saying the truth is something more valuable than you can imagine’
A researcher at Hauri
Technology
Even your medical records aren’t safe. Chinese group hacks into hospital’s patient records
Usama Hasan
Conflict
Hundreds of Britons, including the man who killed James Foley, are fighting for ISIS
A refugee woman from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, sits with a child inside a tent at a refugee camp in north-eastern Syria. The Yazidis have been brutally persecuted by militants from the Islamic State, some
Conflict
An American veteran and a jihadi share memories of Robin Williams
A protester picks up a gas canister to throw back towards the police after tear gas was fired at demonstrators during a protest in Ferguson, Missouri.
Justice
Palestinians and Missourians find common cause amidst the tear gas
A police officer aims his weapon while demonstrators protest the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown, in Ferguson, on Wednesday.
Justice
US veteran says police response in Ferguson ‘isn’t the country we fought to protect’
1st Lt. Tim McLaughlin serves in Iraq, near Baghdad in April 2003.
Global Politics
A Marine who fought in Iraq reflects on the country’s challenges today
1st Lt. Tim McLaughlin serves in Iraq, near Baghdad in April 2003.
Global Politics
A Marine who fought in Iraq reflects on the country’s challenges today
A US cartoon from 1877, showing Russia as an octopus spreading its tentacles over Europe and south-west Asia. In that year, Russia went to war to ‘save’ Orthodox Christian rebels in the Ottoman Empire.
Conflict
Moscow has a long history of making interesting excuses for its military interventions
Marcus Teply
Music
Iraqi-American rapper TIMZ faces his hardest task yet — writing about ISIS
A protester in Russia waves a Facebook flag.
Global Politics
As Snowden looks on, Russia cracks down on Internet freedom
All members with the exception of Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin and China's deputy U.N. Ambassador Wang Min vote in the United Nations Security Council in favor of referring the Syrian crisis to the International Criminal Court for investigation o
Conflict
The Geneva Conventions look useless in the face of today’s potential war crimes
A protester at a rally against Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to expand Japan's military role.
Global Politics
Why young Japanese are joining a new wave of protests