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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Combatants"”.
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Women ex-combatants and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-82).
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Changing contexts, shifting masculinities : a study of ex-combatants
… contexts, the narratives of the same group of ex-combatants ofUmkhonto weSizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). These men went into exile as part of the 1980 generation. It concludes that the different contexts facilitated the construction of different masculinities. …
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Outsourced Combatants: The Russian State and the Vostok Battalion
Shortly after the February 2014 Euromaidan revolution which ousted pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Russia orchestrated a rapid and mostly bloodless annexation of the Crimea. Following the removal of Ukrainian authority from the peninsula, the Kremlin focused simultaneously on …
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Preliminary design and integration procedures for gas turbine intercoolers on naval combatants
The methodology used in analyzing the feasibility of installing direct and indirect intercooling systems on naval gas turbines is presented. The indirect system is comprised of two types of heat exchangers; an air to ethylene glycol, plate fin heat exchanger, and an ethylene glycol to seawater …
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The news media representation of female ex-combatants in Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka
… newspaper representations of female ex-combatants in the divided societies of Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka from 2009 until 2015. The news media communicate information which is used by news consumers to construct their versions of reality, thus news media characterisation is a crucial …
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Violent peace in Liberia. A Study of the Roles and Ambitions of Ex-combatants
… and “reintegrated” large numbers of ex-combatants, but there are still concerns about ex-combatants’ re-engagement in violence. Yet, adequate knowledge and empirical evidence about this are still sketchy. Qualitative fieldwork among ex-combatants conducted in five locations in Monrovia …
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Violent peace in Liberia. A Study of the Roles and Ambitions of Ex-combatants
… and “reintegrated” large numbers of ex-combatants, but there are still concerns about ex-combatants’ re-engagement in violence. Yet, adequate knowledge and empirical evidence about this are still sketchy. Qualitative fieldwork among ex-combatants conducted in five locations in Monrovia …
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Violent peace in Liberia. A Study of the Roles and Ambitions of Ex-combatants
… and “reintegrated” large numbers of ex-combatants, but there are still concerns about ex-combatants’ re-engagement in violence. Yet, adequate knowledge and empirical evidence about this are still sketchy. Qualitative fieldwork among ex-combatants conducted in five locations in Monrovia …
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The Role of Social Networks in Memory Formation and the Social Reintegration of Ex-combatants
… examines the social reintegration of ex-combatants with a focus on the role of social networks and the formation of collective memory. The case is that of FARC ex-guerrillas in Colombia. Building on the work of Maurice Halbwachs ([1952] 1992), it understands memory as evolving over time …
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From the Creeks to the Community: The Reintegration of Ex-combatants in Nigeria’s Niger Delta
… by several decades of communal turmoil when combatants took up arms against the government and oil companies to protest decades of neglect of the region. These conflicts eased in 2009 when the Federal Government of Nigeria instituted an amnesty program that involved disarmament, …
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Manning and automation of naval surface combatants : a functional allocation approach using axiomatic design theory
The design of ships is an inherently complex process. This complexity is significantly increased when the particular ship being designed is a naval surface combatant. The ship design process is traditionally viewed as a highly coupled collection of interrelated physical attributes often determined …
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Lost Voices, Fragile Warriors: Social Capital, Reconciliation and the Reintegration of Former Combatants in Sierra Leone
… Effective social reintegration of former combatants, which is understood to mean a return of social and psychological wellbeing of citizens - is a complex and subtle process, which is an essential element of peace-building mechanism in post-conflict societies. Traditionally, reintegration …
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From conflict to ownership: Participatory approaches to the reintegration of ex-combatants in Sierra Leone and Liberia
… Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants have become a standard tool in peacebuilding. Empirical data on their effectiveness suggest varying degrees of success. The need for a more holistic, integrated approach has long been recognised, but rarely achieved. The reintegration of …
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The Enemy Within: Combatants, Commanders, and Comparative Models in Julio-Claudian Recollections of Late Republican Civil War
… the Julio-Claudian period, their memories of combatants and commanders, and above all their endeavour to come to terms with the horrors of Roman civil war through comparison with events quite literally foreign to it.
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Recidivism among ex-combatants of illegal armed groups in Colombia: An analysis of participants in the reintegration process
… 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 two-year ‘time at risk’ period. The purpose of the study is to identify the main predictors of recidivism and crime …
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Fighting for frames or prospects for peace? : building a prospect theory model of ethnic civil war termination
… dilemma to construct models of how ethnic combatants choose between settling their differences at the bargaining table or on the battlefield. Rooted in the rational choice paradigm, these models draw upon utility calculations and security concerns to describe ethnic combatants' decision …
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Writing US identities in the wars without frontlines: literary perspectives on the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars
… of the war experience for many Gulf and Iraq War combatants. It therefore seeks to construct a reading of the literary responses to these conflicts, including novels, memoirs, and poetry, as well as alternative forms of narrative, which acknowledges the complexity of each war. Whilst it is …
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Military integration as a factor for post-conflict stability and reconciliation Rwanda, 1994-2005
… the defeated enemy forces, or to integrate excombatants where the fighting has not been conclusive. Exclusion of ex-combatants has resulted in renewed conflict. This thesis argues that conventional DDR has neglected two important aspects that are crucial for sustainable stability and societal …
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A history of the present : recognizing the complex and shifting nature of racism and resistance in the life narratives of the Khayelitsha Internal Forces
… of a group of five former anti-apartheid combatants. Narratives were collected from a total often, in-depth, life-history interviews with five former-members of the Khayelitsha Internal Forces. The Internal Forces represent a group of ex-combatants who were operating in the Western Cape as …
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Women in a Man's War: The Employment of Female Agents in the Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946
… deployed by the SOE to act as agents and combatants behind enemy lines; effectively challenging traditional gender roles in war. While World War II has often been perceived as a man’s war, the direct and violent participation of women in various theaters of the war have been largely …
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