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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Organized violence"”.
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Feeling Like a Holy Warrior: Western Authors' Attributions of Emotion as Proof of Motives for Violence Among Christian Actors in Military Conflicts, Tenth Through Early Twelfth Centuries
… almost consistently since Late Antiquity: violence and those who engage in it, and emotions. However, it will be seen that in the Western Mediterranean and Southern and Central Western Europe, from Late Antiquity through the early-Twelfth Century, these areas were carefully controlled and …
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Faire Semblants and Scandalous Worship: Iconophobia and the English Renaissance
… for transforming human affection into acts of organized violence. This fundamentalist rhetoric, and the language of toleration that developed in response to it, are the subjects of this dissertation, which considers England's iconophobic renaissance in the context of its origins in mid …
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Evaluating Violence and (Non)violence: A Critical, Practical Theology of Social Change
… theological approach to evaluate Christian (non)violence in light of interviews with twelve scholars and activists in the United States about the means of social change and the relationship of those means to social location. Social location conditions an understanding of what violence is and how …
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One way to live : Orde Wingate and the adoption of ‘special forces’ tactics and strategies (1903-1944)
… understand the subject as a salient example of organized violence, and not just as a series of unique historical incidents.
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Risk Distance: The Loss of Strength Gradient and Colombia's Geography of Impunity
… communities to fall victim to or collaborate in organized violence; but the differential in rivals' risk distances is by itself more significant to the prolongation or outcome of internal conflict.
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The Enduring Role of Conflict in the Perpetuation of Famine: Advancing 'The Right to Adequate Food' for Sustainable Peace
… alongside an increase in the severity of organized violence dynamics; global authoritarianism is expanding presenting a threat to global freedoms and liberal democracy; as these trends are occurring, world hunger is steadily on the rise reflecting a significant backsliding of progress …
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Narrative exposure therapy to treat traumatic stress in middle eastern refugees: a clinical trial
… developed specifically for survivors of organized violence, such as refugees, is Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), which combines elements of traditional exposure therapy as well as the construction of detailed life narratives found in testimony therapy. There is growing evidence from …
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Psychosocial dimensions of change: An application of attachment theory and analytical psychology to family life in post-war Kosovo
… Kosovo has been transitioning from warfare and organized violence to stabilization and state building under the supervision and with the support of the international community. Drawing on different contributions from analytical psychology, attachment theory and the systemic family theory , the …
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The Carceral Death Machine: Savagery, Contamination and Sacrifice in the Contemporary Prison
… scholars investigating questions of punishment, violence, biopolitics and political philosophy 2) with some specific, publicly-reported incidents within California prisons in the late 20th and 21st centuries and my own detailed narration of events and the structural and quotidian dynamics of the …
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Legacies of Colonial History: Region, Religion and Violence in Postcolonial Gujarat
… of the modern idea of Gujarat, I argue that violence against religious minorities is an effect of both secular nation-building and of religious nationalist mobilization. Given this entanglement, I suggest that we rethink the oppositional relationship between religion and the secular in …