Leeds Metropolitan University
Applied Global Ethics
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Publications
Torture Technology - A Booming Industry?
Landmines: A Worse Fate Still to Come?
New Police Technologies: An exploration of the Social Implications and Unforseen Implications and Unforseen Impacts of some Recent Developments, Journal of Peace Research, 1978, Vol XV, No.4
A Multivariate Time Series Analysis of the Northern Irish Conflict 1969-76, in Alexander & Gleason, Behavioural and Quantitative Perspectives On Terrorism, Pergamon, 1981.
Your Unfriendly Neighbourhood Bobby, The Guardian (2,500 words) July 16 1981.
Target North West, The Richardson Institute, Lancaster 1982.
The International Trade in the Technology of Repression, Securing the State, Working Papers in European Criminology, 1982.
The hard sell, the Guardian, 21 June 1984.
Public Order Technology, Less-Lethal Weapons, in Civil Rights, Public Opinion and the State, Working Papers in European Criminology, No.8, 1987.
The New Technologies of Political Suppression: A New Case For Arms Control, in Hans Gunter Brauch(ed), Weapons Technology, Disarmament and Verification, IPRA Defense and Disarmament Study Group Paper 1, Peace Research & European Security Studies, Germany, 1991.
The New Technologies of Political Repression: A New Case For Arms Control, Philosophy and Social Action, 17 (3-4) July-December, 1991, pp.31-62.
Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority:Towards An Integrated Accessible Transport Network, in Norrbom C.E & Stahl, A., Mobility And Transport For Elderly and Disabled Persons, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1991.
Undermining Non-Violence: The Coming Role of New Police Technologies, Gandhi
Marg, Vol 14, No.1, April-June 1992.
Europaeisk Isenkram For Tyranner, Social Kritik, Nr 22, Nrayana Prss, Denmark 1992.
At China's Torture Fair, The Guardian, August 14 1992.
Shoot Not to Kill, (Full Page On-line launch article), the Guardian May 19, 1994.
Shock Tactics, The Guardian 12 January 1995
Armas Ligeras:Los Nuevos Mecanismos De Control Politico Y Su Impacto En La Violencia Social Y Politica: Julian Gabriel Tokatlian & Jose Luis Ramirez(eds) La Violenncia De Las Armas En Colombia, Escobar Foundation, Bogota, Colombia, 1995.
In S Tachibana(ed), Regional Security and Non-Proliferation - IPRA Defense and Disarmament Study Group Paper 7, AFES Report 57, AFES Press, 1995.
'The New Trade in Electroshock and Restraint Technology' in 'A Glimpse of Hell'
(ed Forrest D.) Amnesty International, 1996.
Back On The Torture Trail, Fortress Europe No.43,, April-May 1996
Chemical Weapons: The Technology Of Repression, Prison Report, 34, Spring 1996.
'Exporting Tools of Repression, Importing Refugees: Links Between the Arms Trade and Human Rights Violations', in Whither Refugee (ed. Alex P Schmid, PIOOM, the Netherlands, 1996.
Tracking The Trade in Light Weapons and Related Technologies: The Omega Database Project, in Hendrik Bullens(ed): Arms Industry at the Cross Roads:Conversion, Restructuring and Arms Trade in Europe(IPRA Security & Disarmament Commission Paper 8) , Peace Research and European Security Studies, Germany 1997.
‘Blood Money’, Guardian Online, June 12, 1997, p.8
STOA Report 'An Appraisal of the Technology Of Political Control, European
Parliament, December 1997 and Summary Report, September 1998.
‘Pushbutton Terrors’, Guardian Online, 29 January 1998.
‘The Technology of Political Control’, Covert Action Quarterly, Spring 1998, No.64, pp17-23
‘Invisible Weapons - War Without Blood?’ World Disarm, January-March 1998, p.4
Co-Author Draft Oxfam report, 'Small Arms, Wrong Hands', Oxfam, 1998.
‘Technology of Political Control’, Focus, Amnesty International, December 1998.
The Emergence of New Sub-Lethal Alternatives To Landmines, Report on the 3rd. NGO Tokyo Conference on Anti-Personnel Landmines, AAR Report, Tokyo, Japan,: 1999
This Will Blow Your Mind, Guardian Online, 13 May 1999.
(With Evans R), Police Face CS Gas Attack, Guardian Online,July 8 1999.
“Non-Lethal Weapons” - The Revolution in Flexible Tools of Political Control, in Joseph Rotblat (ed), ‘Remember Your Humanity’, Proceedings of the 47th. Pugwash Conference on Science & World Affairs, December 1999.
‘The Hypocrisy of Non-Lethal Weapons’ - 2000 word feature for Le Monde Diplomatique, December 1999 (In French, German, English & Italian).
Technology of Political Control and the Internet, in Hick S., Halpin, E., and Hoskins E., (eds.), Human Rights and the Internet, Macmillan Press, Hampshire, 2000.
(With Brian Rappert) ‘A Flexible Response?: Assessing Non-Lethal Weapons, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Vol 12, No.4, 2000 pp 477-492.
‘Undermining Nonviolence: the coming role of new police technologies’ in International Encyclopedia of Non-Violence (ed S.R. Sharma) Vol1. chap 9, Gandhi Marg, Delhi, 2000.
(Co-author) Crowd Control technologies: An Assessment of Crowd Control technology Options For the European Union, Scientific and Technological Assessment Options, Directorate A, (PE 168.394) European parliament Luxembourg, June 2000 (188 pages)
(With E Halpin) The Hidden Dimensions Of Global Information Networks, Proceedings of the 28th. Annual Conference of the Canadian Association For Information Science, September 2000
(With E.Halpin) The Hidden Dimensions of Global Information Networks: What Price Privacy?, The Canadian Journal of Information and Libray Science/La Revue canadienne des Sciences de l’information de bibliotheconomie, Vol 25, No. 2/3 June-September 2000
pp.23-40
‘Small -Arms Cover Up - A Legal Trade in Death’, Le Monde Diplomatique, January 2001(In French, German, Italian, English and Japanese)
(With LMA) ‘Alternative Anti-Personnel Mines - The Next Generations’, Landmine Action, London 2001
‘A Worse Fate Still to Come’ Front Cover-Science Section, The Guardian, March 1st, 2001
(With Rob Evans) ‘A Shot in the dark’ (Front page Science Section) The Guardian, June 28, 2001
‘Non-Lethal Weapons -Killing Me Softly’ New Scientist, 11 August 2001, pp10-13
The Role of Sub-Lethal Weapons in Human Rights Abuse, Medicine Conflict and Survival, Vol.17, No.3, July-Sept. 2001, Frank Cass, London, pp.221-233
Pepper Spray “can damage your health”, Burgerrechte & Polizei, CILIP 69, No.2, Summer 2001.
With Brian Martin, Countershock: Mobilizing Resistance to Electroshock Weapons, Medicine Conflict and Survival, Vol 19, 205-222, Frank Cass, London, 2003.
New Paralysing and Incapacitating Technologies For Sub-State Conflict Control, proceedings of the International Seminar on Asia Pacific Co-operative Security, April 4-6 2003.
The Guardian, Civilising the Torture Trade, March 2003
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,,912621,00.html
Politics of Pain, Science & Public Affairs, March 2004
The Praxis Centre, Global Science & Public Affairs, SSRC, Washington, Spring 2004. http://www.imresearch.org/PraxisCentre/Papers/praxis.pdf
Piece Killers, Global Security Quarterly, SSRC, Washington, Spring 2004. http://www.imresearch.org/PraxisCentre/Papers/wrightpiece.pdf
Merchants of Repression, Global Security Quarterly, SSRC, Washington, Spring 2004. http://www.imresearch.org/PraxisCentre/Papers/wrightmerchants.pdf
(With Dave Webb) Multivariate Time Series Approaches To Analysing The Northern Irish Conflict: Lessons For Future Sub-State Conflict Control, June 2004 http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/inn/im/RIP2004-13.pdf
New Paralysing and Incapacitating technologies For Sub-State Conflict Control, in Yuan Hsieh, S.(ed.), Asia-Pacific Co-operative Security in the 21st Century (English & Chinese), ISODARCO, Taiwan, 343-382(English & Chinese)
(With Brian Martin) Looming Struggles Over Technology For Border Control. http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/inn/im/RIP2005-3.pdf
A Systems Approach to the Northern Ireland Conflict, Kybernetes 3/ 4 2005.
The Rise & Rise of Repressive Technologies, Politics & Ethics Review. Vol 1., No.1,2005, pp. 60-69.
NGO Weapons Inspector, Surveillance & Society, Autumn 2006
Echelon – AN Illegal Vision, Surveillance & Society, Winter 2005.
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/doing.htm
http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/Articles3(2)/echelon.pdf
EC Restrains Torture Technology But Not Future Shock, Scientists For Global responsibility, December 2005
(Joint Editor) Cyberwarfare, Netwar & the Revolution In Military Affairs, Palgrave, Hampshire, UK, March 2006
Forthcoming
With Brian Martin – Countershock - Mobilizing Resistance to Electroshock Weapons, Outrage Dynamics, (ed Brian Martin) Australia, 2006.
‘Preparing for Mass Refugee Flows: The Corporate Military Sector’ in, Cromwell, D., & Levene M., ‘Clearing the Pathways to Survival - The State, Ourselves and Climate Change’, Pluto Press 2006
Paul Smoker – A Life in Peace, Encyclopaedia Of Peace, (ed professor Nigel Young) Routledge, 2007
‘Incapacitating technologies for Internal Security Wars’ Encyclopaedia Of peace, Routledge, (Ed professor Nigel Young) 2007
Television & Film
Wright acted as a consultant to the following TV programmes:-
Ch. 4 Television, The UK Torture Trail, Dispatches, 1995
Ch. 4 Television, Back On The Torture Trail, Dispatches, 1996
Ch. 4 The Truth of CS, Dispatches, 1996.
Ch. 4 'Non-Lethal Weapon' Equinox, 1996.
BBC 1, Surveillance Society, The Sci-Files, 1996.
Granada TV, Making A Killing, World in Action, 1997.
Granada TV, Profit Before Principle, World in Action, 1997.
CH 4 Extended News Piece on Copex, 1997.
Ch4 Extended News Piece on STOA Report & Surveillance, 1997
Mark Thomas Comedy Product - 2 programmes on (i)NSA and (ii)Arms Deals, 1998.
Gregory's 2 Girls, premiered at Edinburgh Film Festival, August 1999.
Ch4 Television, Licensed To Kill, December 1999
Mark Thomas ‘Arms Inspector, 31st January 2003