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Showing 1 to 20 of 275 for “"Civilians"”.
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Principles Matter: Humanitarian Assistance to Civilians under IHL
The provision of relief to civilians in armed conflict is a sensitive activity, subject to specific regulation in IHL treaties. Challenges emerged on the ground have questioned the comprehensive nature of this legal framework and generated debate on the concept of humanitarian assistance itself, …
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The protection of civilians by UN peacekeeping missions under international law
… to protect the lives and physical integrity of civilians. Over 100,000 UN peacekeeping personnel are currently deployed on missions with authority from the Security Council to protect civilians at risk . Chapter VII of the UN Charter provides a UN mission with the jus ad bellum authority to use …
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Protecting Civilians in UN Peace Operations: The Need for Enhanced Training
<p>The present study shows that the protection of civilians (POC) tasks implemented in multiple United Nations (UN) peace operations have not always been executed as intended and, as a result, are accompanied by a number of dysfunctions. Among these dysfunctions are inadequate community engagement, …
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The United Nations and the protection of civilians in African conflicts
… tasks. One of these tasks was the protection of civilians (POC). While much work has been done on the growth of the civilian protection agenda and the role that peacekeepers play in protecting civilians during armed conflict, these works have been descriptive narratives that lack any sort of …
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Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict: Safe Areas and the Silencing of Mass Atrocities
… thesis approaches the topic of the protection of civilians in armed conflict by ‘zooming in‘ on two specific sub-topics: safe areas as well as the silencing of mass atrocities. The thesis consists of five publications (four of them published in double-blind peer reviewed journals) and of an …
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Contribution of civilians towards the liberation struggle in Oshikoto and Ohangwena regions, Namibia, 1966 - 1989.
… main purpose of the research was to look at how civilians contributed to the liberation struggle of Namibia in the Oshikoto and Ohangwena regions from 1966 to 1989. This qualitative study delves into the intricate dynamics of civilian experiences during Namibia's liberation struggle in the …
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Food and Identity: a Case Study of Roman Soldiers and Native Civilians in Roman Britain
Food is a universal medium through which identity is expressed. In cultures both past and present, food represents a direct way to communicate many aspects of identity such as ethnicity, nationality, status, age, and gender. In archaeology, while the nutritional and economic roles of food have been …
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Racial Threat, Black Empowerment, and Civilians Killed by Police: An Analysis of the Largest US Cities in 2015
… policy comprehensiveness impact killing rates of civilians. Findings suggest that greater Black demographic and political empowerment are associated with reductions in killings rates for Blacks as well as for Whites and the total population.
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Connection and Resistance: Civilian experiences of violence in conflict zones and their impact on civilians’ political preferences for violent and nonviolent resistance
… and social connection as mechanisms affecting civilians’ political preferences in response to state-sponsored violence. State use of force policies such as checkpoints, curfews, and limits on communication devices are designed to control militancy and increase safety. However, I argue these …
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Bridging the Gap in Human Protection: Contesting the Responsibility to Protect through the Protection of Civilians Norm: A Comparative Study of Brazil, China and South Africa
… to Protect’ (R2P) and the ‘Protection of Civilians in armed conflict’ (POC). Implementation of human protection through R2P is still contested, with non-Western states claiming that the concept has been used by Western states to pursue their own agendas. Non-Western rising and regional …
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Nowhere to run: measuring how refugee flows and rights shape civil conflict
<p>In civil wars, innocent civilians live in the shadow of violence and destruction. This can range from low-level violence to aggressive campaigns of shelling of urban areas and massacres of entire villages in rural settings. In some cases, civilians respond to this violence by fleeing from the …
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Actors and victims: Understanding the trends and the use of indiscriminate violence in conflicts
… an escalation in indiscriminate violence against civilians? In this thesis, I explore the different strategic positions, which actor(s) adopted during the decade-long Nepalese conflict (1996-2006). Firstly, I demonstrate who the actors of the conflict are, and establish why it is important to …
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War is a terrible enemy to temperance: drinking, self-control, and the meaning of loyalty in the Civil War era
… believed that the conduct of soldiers and civilians would shape if not determine the war's outcome. In this context, the nation-wide temperance movement began a period of transition. Before the 1860s, interest in temperance was waning nationally; local and state regulatory measures had …
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The Prism of Violence: Private Gun Ownership in Modern China, 1860-1949
… In response to the social disorder, many Chinese civilians turned to this new class of weaponry for self-defense. While historians have understood the gun in China in terms of military modernization, this dissertation sets the privately-owned gun in its social and political context, and studies …
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Producing Bodies, Knowledge, and Community in Everyday Civilian Struggle over Surveillance
… of impending or actual harm faced by targeted civilians when they are stopped or screened by law enforcement. Singled out by race and other lines of sociocultural force, those stopped risk physical, legal, sexual, and spatial consequences. Yet focusing solely on the risk of harm limits the full …
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The low prestige attributed to the Air Force officer career by college-educated adult civilians and a "new approach" to raising it: a study of negative attitudes, narrow images, and encouraging reactions
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The Rules of Engagement: Self-Defense and the Principle of Distinction in International Humanitarian Law
… examines the problem of the mistaken killing of civilians in armed conflict. This occurs when a civilian is intentionally killed by armed forces because he or she is mistakenly believed to pose a threat of harm. The requirement that armed forces distinguish between combatants and civilians who …
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Framing practices of wire services in modern wartime : international frames during the final six months of the Battle of Aleppo
… by the researcher -- finality, sympathy for civilians, legitimacy -- opposition, legitimacy -- Assad, internal affairs, and international affairs. They were also analyzed for source selection, in which the types of sources were broken down into aid/research organizations, U.S. government, …
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The nexus of international humanitarian law and international human rights law application and enforcement in a non-international armed conflict: A study of the Mozambican armed conflict
… group Al-Shabaab. As a result of armed clashes civilians have been succumbing to all forms of human rights violations including but not limited to maiming, torture, abduction, killings, all forms of sexual assault, and denial to access humanitarian assistance. The intensity and organization of …
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