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”).
Note (Sep 2026)
p(doom) and the Cuba crisis
Would humanity have escaped from nuclear doom if an AI system had been in the place of Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov?
Histories (Nov 1996)
Kabul: Women, drugs and Taliban
On 27 September 1996, the Taliban – a movement that had started in the southern province of Kandahar two years earlier – also captured Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
And so in November 1996, a few weeks after the [first] fall of Kabul, I travelled there to assess the situation.
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
Kabul, Afghanistan, (Nov 1996): Women, drugs and Taliban
In October 1996, the Taliban had captured Kabul. When I visited Kabul a few weeks later, the fate of women had become desparate; many were literally starving under their burqas... (link)
