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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Failed States"”.
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From model conflict resolution to post-war reconstruction in failed states: The case of Sierra Leone
The purpose of this study is to understand the causes of the Sierra Leonean conflict and to analyse the reconstruction programmes that followed it. Post-war reconstruction programmes must not be limited to the re-joining of families or reintegration of communities. It must also go a long way in …
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Fixing the Failed: An Investigation of Terrorist Organizations and State Building Capabilities
… examines the role of terrorist organizations in failed states. In particular, their ability to perform positive state-building activities that result in stability is investigated. Both terrorism and state failure present unique and serious threats to international security. However, there is very …
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‘State failure’ and the extraterritorial use of force in self-defence against non-state actors
… criteria for creation and recognition of states pertain to efforts to analyse legal and factual issues unravelling throughout the continuing existence of states, as best evidenced by the ‘state failure’ phenomenon. It is argued that although the ‘statehood’ of failed states remains …
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International law and state failure - Somalia and Yugoslavia
The present study considers the treatment of failed States in international law. State failure represents a relatively recent phenomenon, which presents novel problems for the international community to deal with. For international law, the principles and experience of dealing with the creation, …
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The Rubik’s Cube of democratic development a normative model of statebuilding
… ineffective. The restoration of order in weak states became the self-interest of the entire international community. Today, it is clear that the consequences of state failure are more expensive than the costs of an intervention. In order to understand the complexity of state failure and the …
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State fragility and militia proliferation in Kenya a case study of policy inadequacy in the context of soft insecurity
… looks at service delivery in the context of failed states. The objective of this study is to investigate whether state failure in its provisioning capacity of basic services to its citizens has led to the proliferation of militia groups in Kenya. The study draws upon secondary sources of …
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The contribution of African Theological Voices, including Cornelius Afebu Omonokhua, Aquiline Tarimo and Desmond Mpilo Tutu to a renewed Theology of Peacebuilding.
… by the atrocities unleashed by anarchy in failed states or potentially underdevelopedand developing nations of the world. Intolerance of religion, ethnic nationalities and political power tussle leads to violence. Most religious believers are challenged in a special way by the disturbing …
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The Origins of Organized Crime
… Organized criminal groups thrive in unstable and failed states because of the lack of government and law enforcement interference in their illegal activities. However, these groups can also make a home in countries that have relatively short periods of transition between political and economic …
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Separated spacecraft interferometry : system architecture design and optimization
… the system will function in different partially failed states throughout the mission. The reliability model is then coupled with the capability model to calculate total performance over the mission lifetime. The cost model, which is divided into payload, spacecraft bus, launch, and operations …
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There is no Afghanistan: the historic indeterminacy of Afghan sovereign identity
… failure with reference to specific so-‐called failed states. The term implies certain prescriptions in an era of nation-‐building projects, and as such imposes certain identity aspects on any state labeled as failed. Yet the specific histories, experiences and political culture of those states …
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Patterns in the Chaos: News and Nationalism in Afghanistan, America and Pakistan During Wartime, 2010-2012
This dissertation examines the United States's elite news media's hegemony in a global media landscape, and how it can come to stand for the entire American nation in the imagination of outsiders. In this transnational, instantaneous digital media arena, what is created for an American audience can …
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Integrated application of compositional and behavioural safety analysis
… of a system from normal to degraded and failed states. These state automata can be further enhanced and then be model-checked to verify the satisfaction of safety properties. Note that the development of such models in current practice is ad hoc and relies only on expert knowledge, but it …
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The Security & Development Nexus
… necessitated the building of newly-democratized states while aiming to achieve security and promoting development. The difficulties that arise when helping to reconstruct states that have failed or those approaching a “failed state” status is that they are neither stable nor have a secure …