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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Massacres"”.
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A comparative study of massacres during the wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641-53
This dissertation is a comparative study of massacres and atrocities perpetrated in England, Ireland, and Scotland between 1641 and 1653. In this period the three Stuart kingdoms were embroiled in a series of wars that had a destabilizing and traumatizing effect on society. By concentrating on …
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"too notorious to be denied": The Murdering Gully Massacre(s)
… contextualised accounts for two per cent of the massacres reputed to have occurred, it remains an under-researched component of our nation's history. Accounts of massacres are also mostly presented as contextless vignettes in which victims (and perpetrators) lack any humanising details and which, …
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Narratives of a Fallen Army: Japanese Veterans' Concepts of Defeat and War Crimes Responsibility in World War Two
… crimes responsibility, particularly for civilian massacres during WWII. My thesis focuses on former Japanese infantry regiments whose members committed civilian massacres in the Malaya Peninsula, the Philippines, and Burma and were tried by the British and US/Philippine forces between 1946 and …
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British reactions to Amritsar and Croke Park : Connections and comparisons
… on the British Government’s response to these massacres, and the perspectives of two opposed political groups: the British and Irish Unionists, and the Labour Party. Connections and comparisons are drawn between the Government response to both cases and the official representations of the …
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Agency, Structures and Peru: Action and in-action during 1980-2000
… state and insurgent terrorism, corruption, and massacres. While this chaos is inextricably linked to Peru's history, I fear is being all too quickly forgotten. My main motivation behind this research has been to take a step towards increasing awareness of these events and the many reasons behind …
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Sunlight Upon a Dark Sky - Haiti's Urban Poor Responds to Socio-Political and Socio-Cultural Conflicts: A Case Study of the Grande Ravine Community Human Rights Council
… as a response to threepolitically motivated massacres. The impromptu grassroots response of this poor urbancommunity is at the core of the following research question investigated in this study:What organizational characteristics influence the efforts made by the Grande RavineCommunity Human …
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'When the people are made the enemy': Human Rights, Military Doctrine and the Path to Atrocity in Vietnam and El Salvador
… the course of twentieth century conflict. The massacres at My Lai in Vietnam and El Mozote in El Salvador came to be regarded by many as the defining actions of those wars. These tragedies, however, were not isolated examples, and civilians in each war often bore the brunt of military …
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"Butchery and Plunder in God's Name": The Causes of Oliver Cromwell's 1649-1650 Irish Campaign
… 1649. Cromwell's campaign is highlighted by two massacres, Drogheda and Wexford, committed on his orders, and the after effects of these atrocities.</p><p>Chapter two examines the relationship of the English and Irish from their first meeting in 1172 until the Ulster Rising of 1641. The reasons …
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Leslie Silko e James Redfield, mentores de uma nova consciência : da fragmentação à unidade
… abundância, relações disfuncionais, corrupção, massacres, criminalidade, entropia climática, entre outros. Este estudo tem ainda como objectivo perscrutar se os Estados Unidos estão dispostos a (re)erguerem-se e a (re)afirmarem-se como um modelo sagrado para todo o mundo, símbolo do berço de um …
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Herederos de la libertad: criminalización, liderazgo y escritura de afro-descendientes en Colombia, Brasil y Cuba
… reaction to this phenomenon (from repression to massacres) proves the massive influence of Afro-Latin American leaders in their communities. The third chapter discusses different strategies implemented by black writers in order to contest the hegemonic model of a "white" male intellectual. …
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State repression, nonviolence, and protest mobilization
… comparative analysis of 44 different historical massacres is presented in which repression backfired and increased protest in some cases, but not others. Repression backfire is a highly asymmetrical and nonlinear causal phenomenon. I conclude that nonviolent protest strategy has been a salient …
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The massacre at My Khe 4: a different story.
… Careless research has led some to argue that the massacres were the result of an order to destroy Son My and its people and the US Army has also been accused of trying to obscure what its investigators had discovered about the killings at My Khe 4 and of ensuring, with the encouragement of the …
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Women, gender, and siege during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-1652
… to violence’ as opposed to field battles or massacres. This dissertation applies the lens of gender to siege warfare in order to uncover aspects of these relationships to violence which would otherwise remain obscure. This dissertation explores various aspects of life for besieged women: the …
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Nowhere to run: measuring how refugee flows and rights shape civil conflict
… 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 conflict to find refuge in neighboring states; however, in other civil wars, civilians remain trapped in the conflict zone, …
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My name is Afrika: Setswana genealogies, trans-atlantic interlocutions, and NOW-time in Keorapetse Kgositsile's life and work
… diaspora. At age twenty three, post-Sharpeville massacres, he was sent into exile by the leadership of the ANC, and he took with him a corpus of Tswana literature which would in/form his poetic. He readily immersed himself in the oral and written tradition of Afro-America while in exile in the …
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Looking Upstream: A Sociological Investigation of Mass Public Shootings
… more at risk or vulnerable to these types of massacres. Similarly, I argue that an imitation or diffusion process, driven primarily by media exposure, also shapes the incidence and spatial distribution of these attacks.</p> <p>A Continuous-time Event History Model (or Hazard/Survival Model) is …
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Impunidad y Leyes de Amnistía: El caso salvadoreño
… forced rictions, extrajudicial executions and massacres, they have realized that peace would not bring them justice. This research work takes up the situation in El Salvador, about those crimes against humanity and the serious violation of human rights perpetrated during the civil war, which …
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Populizmas užsienio politikoje: Lenkijos atvejo analizė /
… grievances prevalent in society, such as the massacres in the Volhynia and Eastern Galicia regions, is a clear tendency of populist politics. The inability to find common ground affects the declared support for Ukraine to join the EU. In the case of migration, Ukrainian migrants become a tool …
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Testimonios de la guerra civil en la comunidad Segundo Montes y su influencia en la lengua y la cultura en general
… of disappearances, religious journalists and massacres that served the Salvadoran community in a way, since they were considered opponents for expressing discontent towards the government. Another element in the testimony is the systematic establishment of violence, terror and mistrust among …
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