Ida Nafstad wrote the article "Police abolition and transformative justice in the footsteps of Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition", outlining Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition theories in connection to political activism. She explores the role of the police in Mathiesen's theories and argues for the relevance of his ideas in transformative justice and police abolitionism. Nafstad shows the relevance of Mathiesen's theories for contemporary abolitionist movements and scholarship and how they contribute to further his theories in new areas.
In "Colonial violence and the dangerous passivity of Western intellectuals on Palestine", Heraclitos Muhire argues that Western political figures, media, intellectuals and civil society organisations have facilitated the decimation of Palestinian society, historically and currently. He writes that by connecting and engaging with Palestinian movements and organisations at the forefront of the struggle against the Israeli occupation, Western intellectuals should demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire. Further, Western intellectuals should demand that their institutions boycott and divest from Israeli institutions, including universities, that are complicit in the occupation, recognise the illegitimacy of Israeli settler colonialism, and build long-lasting relationships with Palestinian counterpart institutions.
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