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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Anti-Terrorism"”.
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Anti-terrorism control orders : a human rights analysis
This thesis explores the UK government’s use of anti-terrorism control orders under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) 2005 between March 2005 and December 2011. Control orders, a form of preventive civil order, were used to impose a range of often stringent ‘obligations’ on individuals who were …
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Evaluating the legitimacy of national security practices and anti-terrorism legislation
The relationship between human rights and terrorism is an interesting topic with sufficient social relevance to justify this research based Masters. Since 2001, this topic has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. While there was already a considerable amount of literature on the …
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Immigration, Anti-Terrorism and Islam: Capitalist State Control of Muslim Populations in Contemporary Britain
… Marxist analysis of New Labour's immigration and antiterrorism policy. The analysis focuses on the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 and the Nationality and Immigration Act 2002. The introduction of these two pieces of legislation came as part of New Labour's response to the inner city …
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Analysis and simulation of welded plates subjected to blast loading
… bIast protection as well as other forms of anti-terrorism measures are a high priority for defence forces and humanit.ar:ia:n organisations. Armoured vehicle used in mine protection and navy ship hulls utilise welding during their fabrication. A weld is defined by British Standards [1], as: …
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International Law and Counter Terrorism
… between international law and counterterrorism. It thoroughly explores the concept of terrorism, analyzing it from the perspectives of international criminal law, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The thesis highlights the complexities and limitations of current international …
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Fear Decorated
… discourse around Pakistan’s security culture anti-terrorism and its dependence on the production of cognitive illusions in the citizenry. My works elaborate on the use of urban furnishings of danger to rapidly create, continually reinforce and normalize the acceptance of surveillance. …
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A purposive formalist interpretation of Chapter III of the Australian Constitution
… powers conferred on federal courts under the anti-terrorism control order provisions of the Commonwealth Criminal Code (the ‘Code’), and contrasts formalist and purposive formalist approaches to assessing the Chapter III validity of these provisions. The second case study concerns similar …
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The Culture of Conflict: Assessing the Effectiveness of Cultural Analysis in Operational Planning
… and fulfill foreign policy goals. In the face of anti-terrorism campaigns that have led to violent and virulent insurgencies, the United States has looked to a seemingly unconventional weapon to accomplish its counterinsurgency goals: cultural analysis. Since the beginning of the Global War on …
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Combating terrorism: a guide for U.S. Naval forces afloat
… not have a single source document that addresses anti-terrorism and counterterrorism. The increase in terrorism world-wide has stimulated the concern that vulnerable maritime vessels will become terorist targets. U. S. Navy ships in a restricted maneuvering situation, at anchor in a harbor, or …
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Game day emergency: a flow and vector based GIS stadium evacuation model
… U.S. Department of Homeland Security has deemed anti-terrorism evacuation planning and simulation critically important for sport stadium security. In this study, a flow based geographic information system (GIS) vector evacuation model was built in ArcMap. The model was developed to compute a …
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The Appropriate Use of Human Intelligence in Combating Terrorism
When we looked at different issues in terrorism such as definitions, descriptions and motivations, groups and supporters, tactics, strategies, and victims of terrorists and terrorist activities, we see that terrorism is an issue that can occur at any time, and in any place, and it seems that the …
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Stochastic mapping for chemical plume source localization with application to autonomous hydrothermal vent discovery
… chemical plant safety, search and rescue, anti-terrorism, narcotics control, explosive ordinance removal, and hydrothermal vent prospecting. Turbulent flows make the spatial relationship between the detectable manifestation of a chemical plume source, the plume itself, and the location of …
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Freedom and order : how democratic governments abridge civil liberties after terrorist attacks -- and why sometimes they don't
… legislation in the form of the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. By contrast, George W. Bush passed the much more comprehensive and repressive Patriot Act through a divided Congress in a month-and-a-half after the September 11, 2001 attacks. In Great Britain, Tony …
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The experiences of Western Australian Muslims within the current political and social environment
… factors, and the vast introduction of Australian antiterrorism legislation, may impact them. Also explored in this inquiry, was how mainstream media and their regular portrayal of Islamic-inspired terrorist attacks, which has at times connected all Muslims to these atrocities, is creating a social …
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How does the implementation of counter terrorism measures impact on human rights in Kenya and Uganda?
This thesis explores the impact of counter terrorism measures on human rights in Kenya and Uganda. It identifies terrorism as a global problem and reviews its common features. It recognises that the human cost of terrorism has been felt in virtually every corner of the world. It analyses the nature …
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Freedom of expression in Morocco : a comparative study between the reigns of King Hassan II and Mohammed VI
… of a strict policy against the press such as the anti-terrorism law adopted after the terrorist attacks of Casablanca in 16th of May 2003 stand as clear examples. Censorship, though it is always threatening, is not actually a daily matter in Morocco and it is not systematic as well, but it takes …
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Terrorism as a social information entity: A model for early intervention.
… organizations in an effort to better deal with terrorism, especially in the long run. The researcher, who also worked as a Police Captain at Turkish National Police Anti-Terrorism Department, seeks solutions to today's global problem by studying both literature and a Delphi examination of a …
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Stochastic mapping for chemical plume source localization with application to autonomous hydrothermal vent discovery
… chemical plant safety, search and rescue, anti-terrorism, narcotics control, explosive ordinance removal, and hydrothermal vent prospecting. Turbulent flows make the spatial relationship between the detectable manifestation of a chemical plume source, the plume itself, and the location of …
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