Notes on
Justice and democracy
This website is for sharing notes related to past interests and experience over time, and observations on current developments.
- "Notes" on current issues
- "Histories" with stories of the past
- "Library" with lists and links to reports, presentations and capacity building projects
All of this broadly falls under the heading of "justice and democracy".
Latest & stables
Note (Jan 2026)
Flooding the zone
This paper attempts to provide a better understanding of the strategy of epistemic disruption pursued by national, radical-right and far-right populist movements (collectively, “NAPO”).
Ten years after the attempted coup of 15 July 2016, Türkiye is competing with Azerbaijan for the last place among the 46 members of the Council of Europe - according to a composite indicator ranking members of the organization.
Histories (Mar 1995)
Lunch with the Taliban
By Spring 1995, the Taliban had consolidated their hold on Southern Afghanistan. They had made the city of Kandahar their HQ and taken over the province of Helmand in the Southwest. Fighting was still going on further north, in Nimroz province.
I went to have lunch with the Taliban in Helmand.
Note (Feb 26)
The character of the Russian regime
The scorpion and the frog, autocracy, kleptocracy, organized crime, fascism.
Whether considering continued support to Ukraine, negotiations to end the war or a future security architecture, it is important to understand the character of the Russian political regime to negotiate and cooperate with or to isolate, contain or defeat ...
Note: The story of a picture
Costa Rica, Nov 2022: Women and cybercrime
This conference organised by the Council of Europe in Costa Rica was remarkable for many reasons, but the most moving moment was when Natalia Tkachuk from the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine addressed the meeting nine months into the full war of aggression by the Russian Federation.
