scholarly journals The Duty of Care for Citizens Abroad: Security and Responsibility in the In Amenas and Fukushima Crises

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Græger ◽  
Wrenn Yennie Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Duty Of Care ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
Violent Events

Summary This article analyses the state’s duty of care (DoC) for citizens who fall victim to unforeseen catastrophic or violent events abroad. The DoC highlights the challenges, dynamics and relations involved in diplomatic practice that is aimed at protecting citizens outside of state borders and where traditional security concepts have little relevance. How has a globalized, more insecure world — with shifting relations and responsibilities among states, their subordinates and other carers — affected the provision of DoC? How do governments and private actors act on the DoC during and after crises? To illustrate, the article draws on the terrorist attack at a gas facility in Algeria in 2013 and the nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011, focusing particularly on the Norwegian framework and approach to protecting citizens abroad. In both crises, implementing the DoC required practical skills and measures beyond traditional diplomacy and institutionalized crisis mechanisms.

scholarly journals Listening to Terror Soundscapes

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-77
Author(s):  
Luis Velasco-Pufleau
Keyword(s):  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Extreme Violence ◽  
The Way ◽  
Violent Events

Listening experiences provide valuable insights in understanding the meaning of events and shaping the way we remember them afterwards. Listening builds relationships with places and subjectivities. What kinds of relationships and connections are built through listening during an event of extreme violence, such as a terrorist attack? This article examines the relationships between sound, space, and affect through an acoustemology of Bataclan survivors’ sensory experiences of both the terrorist attack and its aftermath. I draw on the testimonies of nine survivors of the Bataclan terrorist attack in Paris, which unfolded on the evening of 13 November 2015 during a rock concert, as well as interviews with three parents of survivors and victims. This article explores how the study of listening experiences and aural memories of survivors contributes to understanding mnemonic dynamics and processes of recovery related to sound following violent events.

scholarly journals The media: Minimizing re-victimisation through duty of care for victims and responsible journalism

Temida ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-394
Author(s):  
Sarah Simons
Keyword(s):  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Crime Reporting ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Duty Of Care ◽  
Jigsaw Puzzle ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
Unethical Practices ◽  
The Media

This article discusses how professionally unethical practices by journalists during collection and dissemination of crime incident information in Africa, could exacerbate harm to victims of terrorist attacks. The views expressed the outcome of a desk-based study on crime reporting in Africa. Writing through the lens of ?vulnerability? from a non-western context, this article highlights double standards applied by some foreign and international press, who observe stipulated ethical reporting standards ?at home? thereby avoiding further harm to crime victims, while disregarding these guidelines, or applying them selectively ?abroad?. Reports on the Westgate Mall 21/9/2017 terrorist attack in Nairobi are used to illustrate the potential of ?jigsaw puzzle effect? in leading to additional victimisation by making victims identifiable, compromising their safety and psychological well-being while portraying disrespect for human dignity. The author advocates responsible journalism as a reflection of the duty of care for victims? welfare and encourages further discussion on ethical considerations in professional crime reporting.

The current state of affairs for disaster planning for a nuclear terrorist attack

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Goffman, MD, FACP
Keyword(s):  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Fusion Reaction ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Crowd Control ◽  
State Of Affairs

The author presents current thinking on the effects of an atomic bomb blast from a medical point of view and will argue that current US Federal plans for a nuclear disaster are simply crude, insufficient, disarticulated, and principally relies on martial law as a means of crowd control. The simple physics of a fusion reaction bomb is discussed along with the plans of other countries, apparently “secret” American plans, which show a poor knowledge of the physics of nuclear bombs as well as poor insight into what will be needed to help the maximum number of citizens. An alternative plan involving computer modeling and educating the public to the effects of a fission explosion are presented. The key issue of statewide planning is discussed, as the Federal government has dumped medical problems on “the local level.”

Ale na razie tu cisza” – fotografie sprzed katastrofy w wybranych zapisach literackich (Stefan Chwin, Ryszard Kapuściński, Wisława Szymborska)

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Magdalena Strąk
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
First World War ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
First World

The work aims to show a peculiar perspective of looking at photographs taken on the eve of the broadly understood disaster, which is specified in a slightly different way in each of the literary texts (Stefan Chwin’s autobiographical novel Krótka historia pewnego żartu [The brief history of a certain joke], a poem by Ryszard Kapuściński Na wystawie „Fotografia chłopów polskich do 1944 r.” [At an exhibition “The Polish peasants in photographs to 1944”] and Wisława Szymborska’s Fotografia z 11 września [Photograph from September 11]) – as death in a concentration camp, a general concept of the First World War or a terrorist attack. Upcoming tragic events – of which the photographed people are not yet aware – become for the subsequent recipient an inseparable element of reality contained in the frame. For the later observers, privileged with time perspective, the characters captured in the photograph are already victims of the catastrophe, which in reality was not yet recorded by the camera. It is a work about coexistence of the past and future in the field of photography.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document