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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Demobilization"”.
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Police My Internet Presence: The Demobilization of Social Movements through Social Media
… order to highlight what I refer to as rhetorical demobilization strategies deployed by oppositional resistance to undercut the efficacy of social movements.
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Politics of Space in Ankara: The Spatial Triad as Mobilization and Demobilization
… to political mobilization, participation, and demobilization. Through ethnographic research methods of interviews, spatial analysis, and participant observation, this study reveals how social nonmovements can gain their right to the city through spatial tactics of mundane resistance. The …
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Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of FARC: a challenge for Colombia and a step toward andean region stability
… Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) process successfully. Although Colombia has experienced multiple DDR processes during its recent history, political violence continues to plague the country. After each process, Colombia notes the mutation of …
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External and internal pressures on radical social movements: tracing the (de)mobilization of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers
… external and internal factors that led to its demobilization. By consulting primary and archival sources, I identify two external factors of demobilization, resource deprivation and repression, and one internal factor of demobilization, factionalization. It is concluded that as repression and …
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Peace, farm and food: The effect of peace on investment and food consumption decisions
This paper studies how peace 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 …
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Urban Crime in Latin America: A Case Study from Medellín, Colombia
… to the bloodshed, and the 2003 disarmament and demobilization of the <em>Bloque Cacique Nutibara</em> paramilitary organization. A series of Paired Sample T-Tests show that <em>Operación Orión</em> and the paramilitary demobilization seem to have contributed to falling human rights abuses and …
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The Gray Area: Sexuality and Gender in Wartime Reevaluated
… field due to its unique gendered history despite demobilization efforts across the country in different industries. Finally, through the medium of historical fiction, a Civil War soldier’s fears and desires are questioned as he experiences the phenomenon of the Angel’s Glow, a blue light that …
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The Blessed and the Damned: Peacemakers, Warlords, and Post Civil War Democracy
… commitments via international enforcement, demobilization, and a cooperative international environment. The hypotheses derived are tested through an event history analysis for two different standards of democracy. The results suggest that factors indicative of all four theoretical concepts …
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The Political Communications of Iranian Green Resistance Movement of 2009: A Critical Discourse Analysis
… leaders of the movement which greatly impacted demobilization and led to its failure. The results of my study also disprove the viability of the Reform philosophy as a pragmatic political path to democracy.
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Transforming Atypical Challenges into Innovative Solutions: A Gendered Analysis of the UN Interagency Rehabilitation Program in Nepal
… been slow at its best. While every disarmament demobilization and reintegration (DDR) operation is unique, Nepal's DDR process has included atypical conditions such as no government support, continued military command over program participants, an unusually long time spent in cantonments prior …
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The U.S. Government and the Privatized Military Industry: Obscuring the Line Between Public and Private Sector Roles
… threat led many countries to initiate force demobilization. However, the collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in a new era in which conflicts increased worldwide. These conflicts, coupled with reluctance by many countries to become entangled in these armed struggles, have created a market for …
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Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone and Mali
… human rights, and implementing Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) programs in post-conflict Sierra Leone and Mali. By analyzing the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), …
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Teach them to fish. Analyzing practices of security assistance in international peacekeeping training centers.
… responsibility to protect, disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration. The research aims to contribute to security studies by analyzing the fragmented and contested character of security assistance and offering new theoretical insights into the knowledge production process that forms …
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Mapping Ruling Relations Through Homelessness Organizing
… organizing in Toronto, and deployed numerous demobilization tactics to do so, each campaign was fully or partially successful. Full or partial victories were secured by anti-poverty activists through the use (or threat) of direct action tactics.
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From Combat to Community: a Study of how Community-based Approach to Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration (DDR) can Contribute More Effectively to Peacebuilding: The Case of Sierra Leone
Abstract The disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants is one of the vital elements of peacebuilding with the objective of reconciling ex-combatants into communities and reducing the likelihood of renewed violence. However, whilst the use of DDR continues to grow, it has …
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Sex and Motivation in the American Morale Campaigns of the First World War
… morale apparatus from mobilization through demobilization, and demonstrates the enduring significance of the agency’s “parasexual” motivational strategy—from the centrality of sexual scarcity, frustration and manipulation, to the encouragement of women to be sexual gatekeepers, to the …
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Three essays on rural development
… with a single armed group in the process of demobilization and (ii) local multilateral conflicts where the legitimate state opposes two armed groups, one which is demobilizing and one that continues its activity unabated. Identification is based on a difference-in-differences design that …
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Incorporating Youth into the Political Arena: Elite Structures, Elite-youth Linkages, and Youth (De-) mobilization in post-1960 Turkey (1960-2016)
… the processes of youth mobilization and demobilization. Besides, scholars of state-society relations in the Global South have paid scant attention to the political role of youth and elite attempts at incorporating young people into the political and economic structures. This study …
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'Not in Glorious Battle Slain’: Disease and Death in the Royal Navy’s Western Squadron during the Seven Years’ War
… numbers of able seamen. This was compounded by demobilization that followed the War of the Austrian Succession, forcing the British forces to rely on impressment to augment their troop numbers. Though there was a concerted effort to take healthy men with seafaring knowledge, local magistrates …
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From the Creeks to the Community: The Reintegration of Ex-combatants in Nigeria’s Niger Delta
… an amnesty program that involved disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DD&R) of combatants. This dissertation explores the dynamics and challenges of the process of reintegrating ex-combatants involved in the Niger Delta insurrection into mainstream society and community members’ …
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