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In this episode, we discuss the links between national ‘security’ and internal security like policing and border control, as well as highlight the experiences of marginalised communities with these internal security structures. Joanna is joined by Loraine Masiya Mponela (⁠https://www.noaudienceloraine.co.uk⁠) a Malawian born and raised currently living in Coventry, UK, a Mother, Migrants Rights Campaigner and Writer. Also, we have Emily Apple, the Media Coordinator from Campain Against Arms Trade (CAAT). 


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Loraine is the ex-chair for Coventry Asylum and Refugee Action Group (CARAG, 2018-2022⁠ https://www.carag.co.uk⁠ ), a self-organised group for and by people seeking asylum and migrants with precarious status. She is also one of the ex co-chairs for the Status Now 4 All campaign (⁠ https://www.statusnow4all.org⁠ ). She's the author of "I was not born a sad poet"(https://amzn.to/3Z0Edu9⁠ ) a poetry book that gives a voice to asylum seekers whom we usually don't hear from. 
Lorraine also wrote a ⁠blog⁠ for Rethinking Security about the experience of asylum seekers during the Covid lockdown (https://rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2020/06/16/asylum-seekers-covid-19/)

Emily mentioned that policing has a history in colonialism. You can find out more about this in CAAT’s Arms Trade 101 webinar series with Dr Adam Elliot-Cooper (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDSMG9rE-9g). Historian Caroline Elkins is also worth checking out on this. You can also listen to her talk about her work on the Kenyan emergency in 1952 in the ⁠Empire podcast⁠.  

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Policing, borders and hard security within the UK

This episode explores health and well-being in the context of human security. Jo and her two guests, Sarah Lasoye and Amaran Uthayakumar-Cumarasamy, interrogate what health security means as a human security concept, whether the UK provides that for all citizens, and if not, why not. 

Check out Prevent Watch (https://www.preventwatch.org/) as mentioned

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Health as Human Security

In this episode, Jo is joined by Lynne Tami (Aye Right) and Layla Aitlhadj (Prevent Watch) who discuss the human rights challenges faced by specific minority groups. Focusing on the Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and Muslim communities, we hear how recent legislation has impacted these communities and what security looks like for them.


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Securing Democratic and Human Rights

In this final episode of the Centring Human Security Series, we are joined by Richard Reeve (Coordinator of Rethinking Security) and Anna Sundstrom (Olof Palme International Centre). The conversation explored what centring human security ideas might look like, instead of continuing to prioritise ‘national security’, across a number of issues that are often a source of insecurity for some or most ordinary people—answering questions like 'how can changes be made to national policies or strategies that meet the security needs of people and planet?'

Centring Human Security at the National Level

Welcome to the second series of the 'Rethinking Security Podcast - Paths out of Polycrisis' 

Hosted by Larry Attree, an expert on international peace and security issues, he explores the intersecting global challenges confronting the UK. 

In this first episode, Larry is joined by Dr Hillary Briffa, Lecturer in National Security Studies and the Assistant Director of the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College London, and Dr Victoria Basham, Professor of International Relations and Head of Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University, to discuss the range of challenges facing the UK. With a focus on the government's Integrated reviews (and refreshes) and what security areas have been overlooked. 

Listen to this episode to get an overview of what the series is about, and an insight into recent government security policy and its effectiveness.

Navigating global ‘polycrisis’

In this episode, Larry speaks to Jordan Street, Senior Policy & Advocacy Lead for Saferworld and Lee Jarvis, professor of International Politics at Loughborough University, about the war on terror.

They reflect on UK policy responses to terror threats, in Iraq and Afghanistan and how they have evolved. What "new" threats should the UK be worrying about? How do recent conflicts shape UK policy foreign policy?

Hear this and more on this week's episode.

Beyond the war on terror?

In this episode, the focus turns to the ongoing war in Ukraine and the potential paths away from confrontation with Russia towards sustainable security across Eurasia. 
Featuring insightful discussions with two esteemed guests: Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, an expert on Russia, the Cold War, and its legacies, and Anatol Lieven, the director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
The conversation delves into the pressing need to end the war in Ukraine and explores the diplomatic avenues that could lead to a lasting settlement.

Paths away from war with Russia

In this episode, Larry is joined by ⁠Isabel Hilton⁠⁠, a distinguished journalist, broadcaster, visiting professor at King’s College London, contributing editor at Prospect Magazine and founder of China Dialogue; they ask why the UK is putting so much into this region at present, how well the UK is balancing cooperation, competition and containment in its relations with an increasingly powerful China, and how to navigate security risks when doing so. 

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How can the UK address risks from China and in the Asia-Pacific region?

In this episode, Larry is joined by Ruben Andersson,  professor of social anthropology at Oxford University who works on security, migration, borders and related topics and Fiona B Adamson, Professor of International Relations at SOAS with research interests in the international politics of migration, mobility and diaspora. 

They examine the current state of migration and whether UK/European policy and politics on migration have been successful or a self-reinforcing failure. 

Find out their views and more on this episode.

From Permacrisis to Strategy on Migration

In this episode, Larry is joined by Livvy Hanks (Olivia) Coordinator of the Parliamentary effort to promote the Green New Deal and Stuart Parkinson the Executive Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility. 
They explore the recent warnings over the likelihood of reaching the ‘Earth System Tipping Points’ and what a country like the UK can and should be doing in response. 

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