Police, War & Empire PT1
Channel: Campaign Against Arms Trade
Date: 2020-07-02

PART 1 of series:


The aim of this series is to address the absence of policing in mainstream anti-arms trade organising. This webinar series aims to ask, what is the link between war and policing? How should both be understood? And should they be separated? What is the role of war, the arms trade, and policing in the making and upholding of empire?

As well as bringing forward the very obvious ways in which policing is part of the global arms trade, with the police literally protecting the sales and transfer of arms at arms fairs like DSEI, the attendance of police forces at arms fairs, and the shared exchange of policing tactics, this series aims to look at the foundations of war and policing addressing for example, and how both operate together - with suggestions that they are one and the same (e.g. war as global policing).

With contributions on war/policing in/of the UK, Kashmir, Palestine, and through borders, this series aims to contribute to more holistic understandings of war and policing whilst a re-thinking of resistance in the re-framing of the arms trade.


Speakers:
- Adam Elliott-Cooper
- Arun Kundnani
- Ather Zia
- Nadine El-Enany



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Readings and resources (optional recommended readings/resources from speakers):

From Fanon to ventilators: fighting for our right to breathe:
https://roarmag.org/essays/from-fanon-to-ventilators-fighting-for-our-right-to-breathe/

Data-driven Policing: The hardwiring of discriminatory policing practices across Europe:
http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/624446/

Britain as the spoils of empire: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/articles/britain-as-the-spoils-of-empire/

The Systematic use of Torture and Ill-Treatment at Israeli Interrogation Centers ... Cases of Torture Committed at al-Mascobiyya Interrogation Center:
http://www.addameer.org/publications/systematic-use-torture-and-ill-treatment-israeli-interrogation-centers-cases-torture

How to abolish the Hong Kong police:
https://lausan.hk/2019/how-to-abolish-the-hong-kong-police/

Hong Kong’s Police Violence Is Stamped ‘Made in U.K.’:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/07/18/hong-kongs-police-violence-is-stamped-made-in-u-k/

Addameer Reports:
http://www.addameer.org/publications/reports

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