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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Pacification"”.
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United States organization for pacification advice and support in Vietnam, 1954-1968.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science.
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Ruling the Dead: Rulership, Spirit Pacification, and the Water-Land Retreat in Fourteenth-Century East Asia
Spirit pacification is the practice of neutralising, through conciliatory or coercive means, the potentially malevolent spirits of the dead, thereby restoring peace and stability to the realm of the living. Catastrophes such as warfare, famine, or epidemic generated mass casualties. Political …
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Peace through the metaphor of war from police pacification to governance transformation in Rio de Janeiro
… other, and the military police, for control. The pacification police are an attempt to reverse this history. The pacification police are the most prolific and contentious public security policy in Rio de Janeiro's recent history. Their official objective is to restore security to spaces once …
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Resistance, pacification and consciousness : a discussion of the historiography of Khoisan resistance from 1972 to 1993 and Khoisan resistance from 1652 to 1853
This thesis studies the modern historiography of Khoisan resistance through a discussion of five selected authors. It outlines the main theses of these authors and offers conceptual and methodological critique. The thesis also describes concepts of Khoisan oral tradition, which are used as a basis …
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Swords and ploughshares: an analysis of the origins and implementation of the US Marine Corps' counterinsurgency strategy in Vietnam between March 1965 and November 1968
… about why the Marines chose to emphasis pacification and the ‘ink blot’ strategy rather than conducting a more conventional campaign that focused upon the destruction of enemy forces. The Marines’ own experience of counterinsurgency in the early part of the 20th Century, as well as the …
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Problematizing diversity in American education: language and curriculum as catalysts for change
… [homo] sexuality. The language, then, promotes pacification with education in the form of sloganizing and tolerance. In addition, diversified curricular pursuits focus on further pacification in the form of recognition and hospitality. For these reasons, I argue that education must move away …
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Fascismo al bivio: The Arditi del popolo and Civil War at the Advent of Fascist Power
… (FdC), their erstwhile nemeses, in creating a pacification agreement in the summer of 1921.</p>
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Flourishing Opportunities: Four essays in Applied Econometrics
… starting before, but ending around the pacification dates are ‘quasirandomly’ exposed to exogenous shocks of violence during pregnancy. The results show that each month pregnant women are exposed to pacification increases birth weights by 4 grams and reduces the probability of low birth …
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American Economic Imperialism and the Spanish-American War Era
… evidence about American brutality during the pacification of the Philippines came to light. Modern education can no longer focus on small pinpoints of history now that we have the technology to find ever increasing amounts of information. Many educators and historians agree that the use of …
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Averting Dyadic Conflict: The Role Of International Political Economy
… and provide strong evidence in support of the pacification of international conflict through DEI.</p>
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Changing paths : an historical ethnography of the traders of Tubetube
… kune over the last hundred years. I argue that pacification, the introduction of European goods, and the Christian conversion of the Tubetube people effected profound changes in their trading economy and the system of alliances between separate communities. I explore the nature of these changes …
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Changing paths : an historical ethnography of the traders of Tubetube
… kune over the last hundred years. I argue that pacification, the introduction of European goods, and the Christian conversion of the Tubetube people effected profound changes in their trading economy and the system of alliances between separate communities. I explore the nature of these changes …
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Pacifying the Visual: Police Reform and the Promise of Body Worn Cameras
… BWCs are also usefully understood as a form of pacification, one which seeks to reaffirm police legitimacy specifically by mastering the visual field itself. Relying upon a collection of official documents outlining the efficacy and implementation of BWCs, it is argued here that police advocates …
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Entre a “Síndrome do pato” e o “efeito Mateus”: juventude e políticas sociais na periferia de Salvador
… Bahian State -, to then dwell on the context of pacification of communities through the implementation of community-Based Calabar Security as well as on the relationship between young people benefited from social initiatives and their families, paying attention to the confluence of classificatory …
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The relations between the Entente powers and Greece, 1923-6
… and the solidity and durability of the era of pacification apparently ushered in by the treaty of Locarno.
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Full Bridge LLC Converter Secondary Architecture Study for Photovoltaic Application
… the transformer is costume built for the system pacification. Another part is the parasitic effect analysis. At a high operating frequency and to achieve very high-frequency operation, parasitic effect need to be fully understood and considered as it may have the dominating effect on the system.
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Evaluating Violence and (Non)violence: A Critical, Practical Theology of Social Change
… that undermine individualism; disruption over pacification; and self-critical, Christian solidarity that welcomes differences in belief regarding the justifiability of various means of social change.</p>
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Internet control and authoritarianism : regimes defying political change
… regime; an effective use of e-governance and the pacification of Internet entrepreneurs. Iran serves as a contrast case to China and Singapore as civil society actors in the Islamic country have demonstrated a clear interest in participating in a struggle against the state by entering and …
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Inflammatory and Conciliatory Rhetoric in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Content Analysis of How Three Newspapers Covered Two Provocative Events
… behavior. Conciliatory words were related to pacification, symptomatic of appeasing, and passive behavior. Built-in dictionaries of Diction, Version 6.14.5, a software program, were used to confirm the validity of the two principal constructs. Results confirmed the newspapers' propensity to …
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The Ferrers Earls of Derby : a study of the Honour of Tutbury 1066-1279.
… the Honour of Tutbury within the context of the pacification of the north and west midlands in the period immediately following the Conquest. In addition to examining the Honour territorially, this chapter also examines the feudal composition of the Honour and discusses the origins . and …
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