Opposing the Human Terrain System
The Network of Concerned Anthropologists is seeking signatures to a letter to the US government expressing strong opposition to the Pentagon’s Human Terrain System (HTS) programme. This opposition is based on the following points:
There is no evidence that HTS is effective
HTS is dangerous and reckless.
HTS wastes taxpayer money.
HTS is unethical for anthropologists and other social [...]
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Predicting intercultural conflict
Identities are expressed and conflict at many geospatial and political levels – personal, regional, national, international. It is fascinating how each of these is interrelated, and three papers that have come out in recent weeks look at aspects of this. Ornit Shani asks the question of how “India’s nationhood holds together” in Modern Asian Studies. [...]