Ori Swed, Ph.D.
Associate Professor DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND SOCIAL WORK, TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
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The Peace, War, & Social Conflict Blog
This is a blog about society and conflict in a global environment. It is about the relationship between the military and all of us. It is about how privatization of security can affect all of us, about migration, about war and about peace. I am a war and peace sociologist and this blog is the result of my research, teaching and interests.
This blog is being written with academics and other professionals in the field in mind, but also in the hope that it will spark the imagination and interest of readers from all walks of life.
I hope this blog will be a primer for discussion and that it will allow readers to see how sociology contributes to the study of war and peace. While the posts represent my point of view, which is a result of my work and understanding, I welcome your opinions and hope that this will be a means to interact with others who are also interested in understanding how our world really works.
The debate on privatizing the war in Afghanistan is heating up yet again, with Democratic lawmakers...
Erik Prince suggests outsourcing the war in Afghanistan as a crucial part of the U.S. exit strategy on Afghanistan.
I am glad to announce that our edited volume: The Sociology of Privatized Security is out with Palgrave-Macmillan. It is the first...
Source: The Economist The fact that the US used private military and security contractors in Iraq and...
A Bloomberg news report today described an incident that potentially could spark WWIII- clashes between American and Russian forces with...
Over the last couple of days a wave of demonstrations across Iran has captured the world’s...
Soldiers sometimes make the “ultimate sacrifice”. Such a loss is a terrible loss for both the soldier’s family and for society. But...
When war rages, the death, injury, and misery of thousands and millions seems to be inevitable. The consequences of war are regularly...
A glance at the United States and Russian Middle Eastern policies emphasizes the dominance of arms politics. Trump’s first trip abroad...
A New York Times article from July 10 reported a meeting between the higher echelon of the Trump administration and two of the leading...
A driver purposely plows into a group of people with intention to kill in the name of ideology...
The United States’ commander in Chief tweet on LGBTQ soldiers incited a worldwide coverage of LGBTQ soldiers in the US and beyond. The US...
States collecting data on their citizens and employees is a not new thing. To be a functioning state in the modern world means you have...
Trump administration’s objection to international treaties, notably the Paris Climate Accord, the TPP, and NAFTA, raised questions on the...
Would you alter your behavior because you know someone is watching? What if that someone is constantly watching you? Is there a point...
One of the principal debates on the topic of the privatization of security is on the question of efficacy. Does privatizing security cost...
Map: ECFR Eclipsed by the war against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, news on another Middle Eastern conflict is receiving far less attention...
Photo credit Rande Archer/Fliker A congressional report release in April 2017 reveals that the number of private military and security...
Since the conclusion of WWII the international community has been working to establish an international system that facilitates...
Photo/Steven Byles/Wikipedia: A few days ago, a coalition of Arab nations led by Saudi Arabia identified Qatar as one of the main sources...
Photo/Jamie Peters/Flickr: Scholarship on civil-military relations has been almost exclusively focused on the power struggle between the...
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