This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society takes a deep dive into campus climate and offers strategic policy recommendations. On 7 October, as Hamas launched the deadliest attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust, the world stood by and held its breath in shock. The devastating images of raped women, dead civilians,...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society explains how political violence works and why it poses such a threat to our democracy. Democracy is under attack. The culprit: political violence. In recent years, politicians in the UK and other Western democracies have been the target of acts of violence. These have ranged...

This report from UK think tank RUSI examines the weaponisation of the FATF Standards. This guide endeavours to convert anecdotal evidence of abuses and misuses of the FATF system into an impartial body of research that can support existing advocacy and policymaking efforts. The standards and processes of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) are...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at how private sector technologies can both endanger and advance gender-transformative cybersecurity. Technologies developed by the private sector play a crucial part in generating, enabling and mitigating gendered cyber harms. They incorporate explicit and implicit gendered structures, ideals and assumptions, which are then propagated and reinforced...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House Identifies the connections between gendered cyber harms to shape better policy responses. Cybersecurity is not only concerned with the essential work of protecting information and communications technologies. It is also about keeping all users safe in cyberspace from cybercrimes, data and privacy violations, harmful and abusive content,...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House explores the conditions under which countermeasures may be taken in cyberspace in line with customary international law. The emergence of information and communications technologies has reignited debates about how and when countermeasures can be used in cyberspace. Countermeasures are a well-established response mechanism available to states against...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs examines the economic and social consequences of anti-money laundering regulation. Debanking became a news story in 2023 when Nigel Farage alleged that Coutts had closed his account because its executives disapproved of his political opinions. A study by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) revealed...

This report from UK think tank RUSI illustrates how fundamental policy and practice gaps allow enablers to improperly protect assets and interests from sanctions. This brief analyses a sample of over 100 relevant recent investigative reports, by OCCRP and other media outlets, on Russian and Belarusian individuals and entities who have been aided by professional service...

This report from UK think tank RUSI focuses on international and unilateral sanctions frameworks regarding the proliferation of WMDs. This report focuses on international and unilateral sanctions frameworks regarding the proliferation of WMDs in North Korea, Iran and Russia, identifying the challenges of implementing counter-proliferation finance and sanctions controls.

This report from UK think tank RUSI explores the state of efforts to combat modern kleptocracy before February 2022. Two years on from the invasion of Ukraine, this paper explores the state of efforts to combat modern kleptocracy before February 2022 and assesses how the Kremlin’s war has catalysed a range of responses from Western...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House discusses six types of humanitarian arrangements that have been established or called for in recent conflicts. The desire to alleviate human suffering in conflict situations often leads to calls to establish arrangements to provide some security for civilians caught up in hostilities and to facilitate humanitarian response...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society identifies four contemporary sources of antisemitism. Antisemitism is spiking in the United Kingdom. Ever since the Hamas pogroms of October 7 2023, which sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, there has been a huge rise in antisemitism. In the last year alone, there was a 589%...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation discusses the current state of education in prisons, and why it is failing to deliver on its aims. Education is central to prisoner rehabilitation, but take-up of it has been in decline and is still not back at even pre-pandemic levels. This Social Market Foundation...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation presents insights into the state of pay and morale of the police force. Low pay and poor conditions have resulted in workforce challenges across the public sector, and the police force is no exception. This Social Market Foundation report, written in partnership with the Police...

This report from UK think tank The Henry Jackson Society explores conflict-related sexual violence in contemporary proxy warfare. Around the world, civilians caught in the midst of armed conflict are increasingly suffering from conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). This disturbing upward trend was confirmed during the 9378th meeting of the United Nations Security Council in 2022,...