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Syria’s de Mistura: Can his plan cut the killing?
Staffan de Mistura may have the hardest job in the world. As the UN’s Special Envoy to Syria, and having trailed his way through 21 different conflicts during his 42-year career with the organisation,...
View ArticleJordan’s Dilemma: Freedom of Expression and National Security
The Jordanian media has been very busy in the last month with coverage of the internal and external ramifications of the Daesh murder of the Jordanian pilot Muaz Kassasbeh, who was captured by the...
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Occasional Papers: Facing Up to Russia’s Information War in the Baltic States
In this Spring edition of our newly launched Occasional Papers series, we look at how NATO and the EU strategic communication efforts could tackle the issue of Russia’s threat in the Baltic States....
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Boko Haram on the Ropes
Chad and Niger are taking the fight to Boko Haram (BH), with the 8700-strong Multi-National Task Force consisting of Benin, Cameroon, Chad and Niger not far behind. With this in mind, it is important...
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Communicating through the Noise
At the recent FCO Communications Conference, it was stated that on average, UK citizens are exposed to between 3-5000 pieces of communication per day. This sounds an incredible number, but given our...
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Outcomes Not Outputs
Outcomes not outputs. This is a phrase increasingly indicative of the mindset of communications professionals within the UK’s diplomatic service, the Foreign and Commonwealth...
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Workshop for Parliamentarians on Communication Regulation in Somalia
As part of its contract to provide support for the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Sector of the World Bank Group (WBG), Albany completed the second subject specialist workshop in...
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Book Review: Going To Extremes – Cass R. Sunstein
When members of a group communicate with each other, what happens? Do they compromise? Do they move towards the mean opinion of the group? The answer is clear, claims Sunstein, ‘they go to extremes’....
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Crisis in Tbilisi
Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, witnessed a deadly flood on June 13th. Around twenty people died in the tragic incident, with three more missing and many more left homeless overnight. Heavy rains...
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Prevent: IHRC takes government to task for making Muslims a ‘suspect community’
Government’s strategy for countering violent extremism (CVE) at home has been under pressure as reports continue to be received of British citizens journeying to Syria or East Africa to join ISIS. More...
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It’s all about that game
Attention is a finite good. Brands – be it a government counter-terrorism unit or a small charity campaigning for the rights of blue whales – are in a constant competition for attention with...
View ArticleBreaching the Barricades: Biased Algorithms and Countering Violent...
We all suffer from confirmation bias. As Warren Buffet said, “What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.” We always have...
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