MiddleGround Journal
SafeGround's media team delivering a bi-annual magazine to youActing as the media wing of SafeGround, MiddleGround seeks the stories of those people and places who have not yet found or are seeking SafeGround. Founded as a part of the 1997 Nobel Prize-winning Campaign to Ban Landmines, SafeGround has since worked to ban weapons and munitions with capabilities to kill indiscriminately.
Founded in 2020, MiddleGround is a quarterly publication that, in the name of public transparency, hopes to shed light on issues of conflict, human rights and international affairs – recognising those who haven’t yet found safe ground.
Our team consists of: Rhett Kleine as the managing editor and Isabella Porras as assistant editor.
MiddleGround Issue 1 2022
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Issue 2 June 2021
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Australia drags its feet on autonomous weapons regulation
Fully autonomous weapons, those which select and engage targets in absence of human control, give rise to moral, ethical, legal and security threats. The efforts to introduce a ban on these ‘killer robots,’ also referred to as ‘lethal autonomous weapons systems’...
From The Editor
While scrolling one of my multiple news feeds, often time in bed escaping the morning, I find myself reading about stories all over the world: in Sheik Jarrah, the fight against COVID, Myanmar, or the US. I then often find myself lamenting the three month period we...
Prologue
By Kasun Ubayasiri July 19 2013: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announces no asylum seeker arriving by boat will be settled in Australia. March 29, 2017: 79 boats arrived in Australia between July 19, 2013, and July 27, 2014. Of the individuals on board, 1,596 were...
An Expensive Jab
By Siddhant Vashistha Amidst governmental failure and mismanagement in the current second wave of Covid-19, and beyond the lack of oxygen, hospital beds and drug shortages, India has a bigger problem – vaccination. India has vaccinated only 8% of its population. The...
The Tonle Sap
Text by Abby Seiff - Photography by Nicolas Axelrod Feb. 17, 2020 - Kampong Luang, Cambodia. © Nicolas Axelrod / Ruom One morning, I pulled up a satellite map of Cambodia's Tonle Sap lake on my computer and clicked my way around it. The water was a milky brown and at...
The Last of the Koli?
Story and Photography by Rhett Kleine By some accounts, the Koli bloodlines on the seven islands of Mumbai stretch as far back as the stone age. Their people fished the waters of Maharashtra long before Alexander’s armies reached the tip of India or Asoka’s empire...
Music and the Farmers Protests
By Shreya Kapoor India has a rich history of musical and poetic movements that were explicitly political and iconoclastic in nature. The Bhakti and Sufi movements with prominent figures like Kabirdas, Meerabai, Basavanna, Khwaja Mouinuddin Chisti, Nizam-ud-din Auliya,...
Paradise Lost
By John Rodsted On a sultry Sunday afternoon, a group of people gathered in a public park for a BBQ. The BBQ was to raise money for charity. The day was hot and humid as they built a fire on the ground. The sky was threatening with rolling clouds, ominous...
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