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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Civilian victimization"”.
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UN Peacekeeping Operations: Conflicting Interests and Effectiveness
… UN missions. Undoubtedly, the protection of civilians is the most important mandate assigned to UN peacekeepers. When stationed in a conflict zone, the primary expectation from peacekeepers is to protect civilians from falling victim to warring parties’ aggressions. The second empirical …
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Rebel leaders and conflict processes: An individual level analysis
… some considerable increases in the number of civilian killings in the course of conflict, the dissertation develops a theoretical model, putting the emphasis on rebel leader tenure and its potential in-group influences on the strategic decision of targeting civilians. Empirically, the analysis …
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The push and pull of war: the political geography of rebel behavior during wartime
… are then explored, with an emphasis on civilian victimization during wartime. In addition, the influence of militarized interstate conflict and peacekeeping deployments are explored in relation to shifts in the behavioral profiles of rebel organizations. The findings reveal that rebels …
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Rebel Organizations, Force Structure, and the Dynamics of Violence in Armed Intrastate Conflicts
… support affect their use of violence against civilians, combat violence, and sexual violence. Chapter one focuses on child soldiering, suggesting that the practice does not have a uniformly positive effect on violence against civilians, as indicated by earlier work, but that the effect is …
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When Do Ties Bind? Foreign Fighters, Social Embeddedness, and Combatant Repertoires of Behavior During Civil War
… of rebel behavior ranging from governance to civilian victimization, I argue that combatants' interactions that occur on and off the battlefield are contingent on actors' embeddedness into local conflict conflicts. Using existing data on foreign fighters in civil wars, data from interviews …
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Negotiating justice, rebel behaviors, and war outcomes in the era of accountability
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01