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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Armed Groups"”.
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The accountability of transnational armed groups under international law
Terrorist attacks by transnational armed groups cause on average 15,000 deaths every year worldwide, with the law enforcement agencies of some states facing many challenges in bringing those responsible to justice. Despite various attempts to codify the law on transnational terrorism since the …
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The Frontlines of Diplomacy: Humanitarian Negotiations with Armed Groups
… are regularly compelled to negotiate with armed groups over access to and protection for civilians affected by conflict. Yet, they are widely perceived to engage in these negotiations from a position of weakness, leading to poor deals and heavy compromises that undermine the humanitarian …
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The Frontlines of Diplomacy: Humanitarian Negotiations with Armed Groups
… are regularly compelled to negotiate with armed groups over access to and protection for civilians affected by conflict. Yet, they are widely perceived to engage in these negotiations from a position of weakness, leading to poor deals and heavy compromises that undermine the humanitarian …
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State Responsibility for the Unlawful Conduct of Armed Groups
… is analysed with respect to unlawful acts of an armed group where: (i) the state provides substantial support to the group; (ii) the group exercises governmental authority over part of the state’s territory; and (iii) a successful insurrection results in the establishment of a new government or a …
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Towards a regime of responsibility of armed groups in international law
The role of armed groups has emerged as an essential topic of discussion in the areas of international humanitarian law and international human rights law. This increase in attention has been motivated by the increase in the number of non-international armed conflicts during the past decades and …
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Effective client management: maximizing the influence of external sponsors over affiliated armed groups
… with different types of indigenous affiliated armed groups. These groups may be rebels fighting against a government or militias collaborating with a government. In many cases, the armed groups will go on to form the nucleus of a new regime. As sponsor-affiliate relationships progress over …
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The Proxy Paradox: Explaining (Lack of) Control Over State-Sponsored Proxy Armed Groups
… puzzles about how states that sponsor non-state armed groups abroad (proxies) control them. The central puzzle of state-proxy relations asks: why would a proxy defy the directives of its state sponsor and risk losing support? The second puzzle is that state sponsors do not always use all the …
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Recidivism among ex-combatants of illegal armed groups in Colombia: An analysis of participants in the reintegration process
… studies the extent to which demographic, illegal armed group (IAG) and demobilisation history variables influenced reoffending and crime severity in a sample of 16,834 ex-combatants from IAGs in Colombia, who were registered into the reintegration programme (RP) in 2006 and were monitored during a …
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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
… contributed to some of these youths joining armed groups, such as gangs. The gang acted as a mechanism to fulfil their dispositions to become men, by providing them with a way to perform a version of 'successful' masculinity. This is prevalent in urban contexts of exclusion and high levels of …
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The IRA and the shadow of the informer : punishment, governance, and dealing with the past
This thesis examines how an armed group understands and manages the operation of informers against it, using the case-study of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The research argues that the IRA’s policies and discourses in relation to the practical and political threat of informing are located …
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The political effectiveness of non-state violence : paradox, polarity, and the pursuit of power
… dynamics of social movements within which armed groups are embedded obscures many of the most important causes and effects of non-state violence. The structuralist theory of non-state violence holds that the structure of power within social movements explains the greatest variation in both …
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Explaining cohesion, fragmentation, and control in insurgent groups
The internal unity and discipline of insurgent groups helps us understand the military effectiveness of armed groups, patterns of violence against civilians, and the ability of insurgent organizations to negotiate and demobilize, but the causes of insurgent cohesion and fragmentation have not been …
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Marxist Insurgencies and Indigenous Rights; The Cases of Guatemala and Peru
… the nature of the relationship between leftist armed guerrillas and indigenous rights in the Latin American region. I argue that the ethnic component and indigenous mobilization have greatly determined the political and social achievements of Marxist insurgencies active in many countries of the …
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Opposition groups as parties to internal armed conflicts and the concept of the R2P : to what extent opposition groups could play a role for the purpose of the protection of populations within the concept of the R2P
This thesis focuses on opposition groups as parties to internal armed conflicts and the concept of the R2P. Accordingly, this research aims to examine the extent to which opposition groups, as parties to internal armed conflicts, could contribute to the objective of protecting civilian populations. …
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Forests in Conflict: A social-ecological analysis of the nexus between armed conflict and deforestation in Colombia
… explores the complex relationship between armed conflict and deforestation in Colombia through the lens of socio-ecological systems (SES). Armed groups in Colombia have historically exploited forests as strategic resources, fueling warfare, financing operations, and sheltering illicit …
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Bankruptcy, guns or campaigns : explaining armed organizations' post-war trajectories
This project seeks to explain what happens to armed organizations after they sign peace accords. Why do they dissolve, return to war, or form non-violent socio-political entities (political parties or civic associations)? To explain variation in post-war outcomes, my argument centers on the human …
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Sunlight Upon a Dark Sky - Haiti's Urban Poor Responds to Socio-Political and Socio-Cultural Conflicts: A Case Study of the Grande Ravine Community Human Rights Council
… of the problems encountered was the suspicion by armed groups believing that thepresident of the organization was informing the police and the United Nationspeacekeepers about their activities. The complex dynamics of the Grande Ravineneighborhood lead to additional questions about building …
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Comparing United States Counternarcotics Strategies in Colombia, Afghanistan, and Mexico
… the crime-terror nexus detailing the illegally armed groups involved, the metrics for success, and future strategy considerations and concludes that counternarcotics success depends on the strategic context and the cultures involved.
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Peace, farm and food: The effect of peace on investment and food consumption decisions
… driven by the demobilization of a non-state armed group affect household's investment decisions and their welfare in the short run. Starting in 2012, the government of Colombia engaged in a peace process that ended with the demobilization of the country's biggest non-state armed group, FARC. …
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