Featuring large-format photographs of skaters in Venice Beach and Manhattan Beach, Palm Angels is the definitive book on the L.A. skateboarding scene, capturing the style and street culture of the world's most elite communities of skaters. Photographed by Francesco Ragazzi, the Italian art director of Moncler, Palm Angels features a special focus on the look and fashions of skate culture. While it emphasizes dramatic movement through stunning images taken in various Los Angeles neighborhoods, it is less focused on describing tricks as it is about conveying the sensation of men and women engaged in an epic, all-consuming activity. Through art photography, this book hopes to do for skating what Bruce Weber and others did for surf culture, elevating it from what once was an exclusive and localized American pastime to a far-reaching cultural phenomenon. In the spirit of the photography taken of the legendary Z-boys of Dogtown, Ragazzi provides readers with a firsthand glimpse into skateboarding in its modern form, still very much infused with effortless style. Palm Angels includes an introduction by Pharrell Williams (known to the skate community as Skateboard P), who has been instrumental in popularizing the skate look and has propelled it all the way to the high streets of fashion capitals like Paris, New York, and Tokyo.

Could policies aimed at preventing radicalisation in Europe end up undermining the very social cohesion they aim to preserve? Since the mid-2000s, a growing number of European governments have broadened the scope of counter-terrorism, making it an issue that needs to be tackled by society as a whole. This report considers the effects of such policies in the education sector through a review of the existing literature on the subject. It begins by considering the issues facing educators and students and their families, and goes on to show how counter-radicalisation policies make contradictory demands on educators, asking them to build social cohesion and resilience while at the same time requiring them to employ a logic of suspicion in spotting potential radicals. The report suggests that this contradictory mission challenges key principles of 1. human rights and fundamental freedoms; 2. education for democratic citizenship, human rights education, competences for democratic culture and the objectives of building inclusive societies; and 3. the key objectives of counter-terrorism itself. The author therefore presents three main areas of reflexion, followed by recommendations for further research and action by the Council of Europe.

This book analyzes how states extend their sovereignty beyond their territories through the language of diasporas. An increasing number of states are interested in supporting, managing or controlling their populations abroad, something they define as their ‘diaspora’. Yet what does it mean for governments to formulate claims of sovereignty over populations who reside outside the very borders that legitimate them? This book argues that ‘diaspora’ should be understood as a performative discourse that enables transnational political practices that could otherwise not be justified in a normative structure of world politics, dominated by the imperatives of territorial sovereignty. The empirical analysis focuses on the former Yugoslavia and contemporary Croatia. The first part of the book examines the history of the relations between Croats abroad and their homeland, from the emergence of the question of emigration as a problem of government in the late nineteenth century until the years preceding the formation of the contemporary Croatian state. The second part explores how, in the 1990s, the merging of bureaucratic categories and state practices into the category of ‘diaspora’ was instrumental in mobilizing Croats abroad during the 1991-1995 war; in reshuffling the balance between Serbs and Croats in the citizenry; and in the de facto annexation of parts of neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina in the immediate aftermath of the war. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, international political sociology, diaspora studies, border studies, and International Relations in general.

Insights from eight grass-roots projects in Council of Europe member states to address the challenges of policies to counter-radicalisation in education This report offers an assessment of the effects of counter-radicalisation policies in the education sector, through the empirical analysis of eight grass-roots projects located in schools across the member states of the Council of Europe (Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Norway and the United Kingdom). It provides a detailed insight into how such policies are experienced in practice. The report covers three main areas. First, it offers an analysis of the legislative and political context that led to the development of counter-radicalisation policies, as well as their contestation. Second, based on qualitative interviews and focus groups with project leaders, students, teachers, educators and school managers, it provides a detailed account of the very heterogeneous type of practices encapsulated by the term “counter-radicalisation”. Finally, it shows that while some practices are in line with principles of human rights education and education for democratic citizenship, others risk undermining fundamental rights and the autonomy of education. The report concludes with some key recommendations to the Council of Europe on how to overcome these challenges.

Les pays occidentaux développent une culture politique de séparation et d'opposition entre ceux qui peuvent circuler librement dans le monde et ceux pour qui cela est interdit. Elle porte d'ailleurs un nom : le visa Schengen. Cela se traduit par la prolifération de camps d'exilés, où sont enfermés de force des hommes venus en Europe pour y trouver refuge, et par la subordination de pays voisins réduits à la fonction répressive de gardien des frontières...

Les politiques visant à prévenir la radicalisation en Europe pourraient-elles finir par saper la cohésion sociale qu’elles visent à préserver ? Depuis le milieu des années 2000, les gouvernements européens sont de plus en plus nombreux à avoir élargi la portée de la lutte contre le terrorisme, au point qu’il s’agit désormais d’un problème auquel la société dans son ensemble doit s’attaquer. Ce rapport examine les effets de ces politiques dans le secteur de l’éducation en passant en revue les publications qui existent sur le sujet. La publication énumère les problèmes auxquels sont confrontés les éducateurs, les étudiants et leur famille, et montre comment les politiques de lutte contre la radicalisation imposent des exigences contradictoires aux éducateurs, en leur demandant, d’une part, de renforcer la cohésion sociale et la résilience, et d’autre part, d’utiliser une logique de suspicion pour détecter des individus en voie de radicalisation. L’auteur présente plusieurs pistes de réflexion et formule des recommandations à l’intention du Conseil de l’Europe sur la nécessité de mener de nouveaux travaux de recherche et d’élaborer d’autres mesures dans ce domaine.

Les enquêtes diligentées par le TPIY et les rapports qui en sont issus sont ici l'objet d'analyses croisées portant à la fois sur l'écriture de l'histoire d'un événement traumatique, sur la détermination des responsabilités criminelles, politiques et morales et, enfin, sur la construction d'un débat public en matière de politique étrangère.

This paper examines the EU's counter-terrorism policies responding to the Paris attacks of 13 November 2015. It argues that these events call for a re-think of the current information-sharing and preventive-justice model guiding the EU's counter-terrorism tools, along with security agencies such as Europol and Eurojust. Priority should be given to independently evaluating 'what has worked' and 'what has not' when it comes to police and criminal justice cooperation in the Union. Current EU counter-terrorism policies face two challenges: one is related to their efficiency and other concerns their legality. 'More data' without the necessary human resources, more effective cross-border operational cooperation and more trust between the law enforcement authorities of EU member states is not an efficient policy response. Large-scale surveillance and preventive justice techniques are also incompatible with the legal and judicial standards developed by the Court of Justice of the EU. The EU can bring further added value first, by boosting traditional policing and criminal justice cooperation to fight terrorism; second, by re-directing EU agencies' competences towards more coordination and support in cross-border operational cooperation and joint investigations, subject to greater accountability checks (Europol and Eurojust +); and third, by improving the use of policy measures following a criminal justice-led cooperation model focused on improving cross-border joint investigations and the use of information that meets the quality standards of 'evidence' in criminal judicial proceedings. Any EU and national counter-terrorism policies must not undermine democratic rule of law, fundamental rights or the EU's founding constitutional principles, such as the free movement of persons and the Schengen system. Otherwise, these policies will defeat their purpose by generating more insecurity, instability, mistrust and legal uncertainty for all.

This paper examines the EU counterterrorism policy responses to the attacks in Paris, 7-9 January 2015. It provides an overview of the main EU-level initiatives that have been put forward in the weeks following the events and that will be discussed in the informal European Council meeting of 12 February 2015. The paper argues that a majority of these proposals predated the Paris shootings and had until that point proved contentious as regards their efficacy, legitimacy and lawfulness. A case in point is the EU Passenger Name Record (PNR) proposal. The paper finds that EU counterterrorism policy responses to the Paris events raise two fundamental challenges: A first challenge is to the freedom of movement, Schengen and Union citizenship. The priority given to the expansion in the use of large-scale surveillance and systematic monitoring of all travellers including EU citizens stands in contravention of Schengen and the free movement principle. A second challenge concerns EU democratic rule of law. Current pressures calling for an urgent adoption of measures like the EU PNR challenge the scrutiny roles held by the European Parliament and the Court of Justice of the European Union on counterterrorism measures in a post-Lisbon Treaty setting. The paper proposes that the EU adopts a new European Agenda on Security and Liberty based on an EU security (criminal justice-led) cooperation model firmly anchored in current EU legal principles and rule of law standards. This model would call for 'less is more' concerning the use, processing and retention of data by police and intelligence communities, and it would instead pursue better and more accurate use of data that would meet the quality standards of evidence in criminal judicial proceedings.

Les politiques visant à prévenir la radicalisation en Europe pourraient-elles finir par saper la cohésion sociale qu'elles visent à préserver ? Depuis le milieu des années 2000, les gouvernements européens sont de plus en plus nombreux à avoir élargi la portée de la lutte contre le terrorisme, au point qu'il s'agit désormais d'un problème auquel la société dans son ensemble doit s'attaquer. Ce rapport examine les effets de ces politiques dans le secteur de l'éducation en passant en revue les publications qui existent sur le sujet. La publication énumère les problèmes auxquels sont confrontés les éducateurs, les étudiants et leur famille, et montre comment les politiques de lutte contre la radicalisation imposent des exigences contradictoires aux éducateurs, en leur demandant, d'une part, de renforcer la cohésion sociale et la résilience, et d'autre part, d'utiliser une logique de suspicion pour détecter des individus en voie de radicalisation. L'auteur présente plusieurs pistes de réflexion et formule des recommandations à l'intention du Conseil de l'Europe sur la nécessité de mener de nouveaux travaux de recherche et d'élaborer d'autres mesures dans ce domaine. Pages de début Résumé analytique Introduction Chapitre 1 - Politiques de lutte contre la radicalisation dans le secteur éducatif Chapitre 2 - Problèmes auxquels se heurtent les professionnels de l'éducation Chapitre 3 - Problèmes auxquels se heurtent les étudiants et leurs familles Chapitre 4 - Enjeux au regard des droits de l'homme et des libertés fondamentales Chapitre 5 - Enjeux en termes d'éducation démocratique Chapitre 6 - Enjeux au regard des objectifs des politiques antiterroristes Conclusion RecommandationsRéférences Pages de fin.