The paper analyses the main factors that trigger radicalisation to “jihadi” fundamentalism from a socio-criminological and geopolitical perspective. The concept of radicalisation and its causes in its potential progression towards terrorist violence will be examined. The conclusion of the paper will pinpoint the flaws of the current strategies of counter-radicalisation and counter-terrorism and will outline some possible preventive ways forward.
Despite the growing international concern about State terrorism, there is a lack of consensus regarding its significance and under which assumptions international crimes are set, understanding that human rights are seriously violated. This work offers a perspective from State sponsored terrorism and the actions of parastatal agents and organizations, both in the international law as well as in the domestic one (namely, Chilean Law).
What space should be given to Italian jurisdiction and criminal law in cases of targeted killings via drones and collateral damages occurring within the framework of the so-called Global War on Terror, waged by the US in third countries? In the light of the ever more frequent use of armed drones as highly technological and depersonalizing weapons in the fight against terrorism, I will try to verify whether and how criminal law can walk throughout the rubble of drone strikes: after some brief remarks about the drone's nature and its "profitable" employment in the supranational context, the existence of Italian jurisdiction with respect to drone strikes will be discussed, especially in the light of the growing use of Sigonella as a stationing and operating base for US drones and of Italy’s "secret" cooperation in the "fight against terror". Subsequently, issues relating to the so-called “secret of State” and the authorities’ refusal to disclose operative policies will be tackled, such as both old and new obstacles to the formulation of the imputations and to the individuation of the responsibilities. Finally, will be trying to providing readers with conceptual keys to understand how criminal-law categories – such as justifications and culpability, as well as the proper identification of the authors of the crimes arising from a particular targeted killing – can adapt to such new reality.
Text of the speech (already published in the official website of the Italian Constitutional Court: see https://www.cortecostituzionale.it/documenti/varie/albi/vigano_albi.pdf) given by Francesco Viganò at the quadrilateral meeting of the French Conseil Constitutionnel and the constitutional courts of Italy, Spain and Portugal held in Albi, France on the 28 September 2018.
A short presentation of the book
Two lectures by Sandra Babcock and Joe Margulies.