Student Network for Human Security (SNHS) Blog

“Our position has been to develop a solution that bridges between having nothing and having Afghan National Police, and this program does that,” said the senior NATO official. “So it’s a good development and especially so since it has consensus within the Afghan government and the ownership that come with that,” he said.

This interesting article of the NYT on the difficulty of consolidating a police corp in Afghanistan. I am sure some statistic about the police could serve as a proxy for human security. But not so sure...

Best wishes for this summer!

A series of five articles on anosognosia, a disease related to human`s limited cognition, reaches this bright end:

ERROL MORRIS: And aren’t there some tasks where we’re all incompetent, where humanity itself is in the bottom quartile, so to speak?

DAVID DUNNING: Well, that has to be true for some tasks, right? There are just some tasks that are incredibly hard. How many centuries have gone by, and we still don’t have world peace? Yes, there are things that we’re just bad at.

I wonder how many things could be explained by the Dunning-Kruger Effect: our incompetence masks our ability to recognize our incompetence.

Give it a try,