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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"; Paramilitaries"”.
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Internal Security and Military Reorganization: The Rise of Paramilitaries in Developing Societies
… a theory of why certain instruments of coercion (paramilitaries) emerge concurrently with democratization and at the cost of existing institutions (regular militaries). It argues that paramilitary growth represents a political-military innovation that emerges from the circumstances of state …
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Security Sector Change in Georgia, 1985 - 2008 Local Dynamics, Politics of Reform and Paramilitaries
… driven political process. The role of paramilitaries in relation to regime security and the security sector change agenda-setting process in Georgia requires the security sector research to treat paramilitary as a distinguished unit for consideration.
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Born of war in Colombia: Narratives of unintelligibility, contested identities, and the memories of absence
… community in Colombia that was occupied by paramilitaries for approximately five years. Paramilitaries systematically used sexual violence against women and girls and, because of those abuses, children were born and later single out by members of the community as paraquitos, “little …
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A re-examination of the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s
… available on both republican and loyalist paramilitaries. Additionally I show that a policy of not interning loyalist paramilitaries was pursued, firstly by Stormont and then Westminster, until 1973. I argue that the introduction of internment was actively supported by both administrations. …
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The Impact of US Foreign Policy on the Colombian Conflicts
… 1999, in order to fight the guerrillas and other paramilitaries groups. The aim of “Plan Colombia” was to fight the violence and the growing of the coca plant. The results of implementing this plan have shown amazing reducement in number of guerrilla fighters and coca cultivated for cocaine …
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The forgotten insurgency is there hope for Colombia?
… to deal with problems of the insurgents, paramilitaries, and narco-terrorists which have plagued the country since 1948. The current administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has shifted strategy from one of negotiation and concessions to an active campaign to restore security and …
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Invisibility, appropriation, subversion: British Army observation posts at the Shankill Falls divide, 1972
… architectures of visual control. I reveal how paramilitaries and military agents alike deployed subversive tactics to remain invisible, while the visibility of civilians increased. A series of extracts from the Commanders Diary reveals a shift towards saturation surveillance, in which local …
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Bankruptcy, guns or campaigns : explaining armed organizations' post-war trajectories
… evidence from a series of surveys of former paramilitaries (n=31,472). The empirics provide strong support for the proposed model. The project has significant implications for debates on reintegration, state-building, consolidating peace, reconciliation, decriminalization, and transitions to …
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Negotiating pathways to manhood: Violence reproduction in Medellin's periphery. Exploring habitus and masculinity to explain young men's decisions to join armed groups in poor urban neighbourhoods of Colombia
In recent years urban violence has become understood as a 'reproduced', multi-causal and socially generated phenomenon. Less is understood about why young men reproduce the majority of this violence. This thesis uses original empirical data based on thirty-two life-histories of youths living in two …
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THE DYNAMICS OF CONFLICT: TRANSFORMING NORTHERN IRELAND
… (political parties, as well as loyalist paramilitaries), intermediaries, promoters of peace and spoilers. I also looked into the potential role elections and agreements had to play. I then looked into the state of organizational dynamics in the period leading to each of my cases, what was …