Open Briefing: A video purportedly showing missing freelance journalist Austin Tice has been posted on YouTube. Our analysis concludes that this is Tice but irregularities suggest the video might have been staged by Syrian government forces.
Tag: Chris Abbott
Press release: Rehabilitating the war on drugs
Open Briefing has today published a policy briefing calling for the decriminalisation and legalisation of drugs in Central America as part of an alternative strategy to the war on drugs ...
Rehabilitating the war on drugs: Central America and the legalisation debate
The illicit drugs trade and the militarised government responses are the greatest threats to state and human security in the Americas. This policy briefing outlines a sustainable security alternative to the war on drugs.
Press release: Fresh thinking on defence and security
Today, 10 October 2011, sees the launch of Open Briefing, a new independent think tank that brings together some of Britains most innovative thinkers on security and international relations ...
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As US bombs fell on Baghdad, my friend and I were locked in disagreement. No matter how I marshalled my arguments I could not persuade him that...
Press release: Why did we get Oslo and Utøya so wrong?
Chris Abbott seeks to explain the collective failure in the reporting of the Oslo and Utøya attacks and proposes five questions to be asked following future terrorist attacks ...
As the dust settles: Avoiding the mistakes of Oslo and Utøya in future media coverage of suspected terrorist attacks
On 22 July 2011 a car bomb in Oslo and a mass shooting in Utøya claimed the lives of 77 people and left 151 injured. In the hours after the attack...