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Showing 1 to 20 of 171 for “"Rebel"”.
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Big Ben: The Gentle Rebel
With the University of Mississippi having a deep and somewhat negative history with racial tension, the sole purpose of this study was to figure out if Ben Williams, the first African American varsity football player experienced any issues with racism while he attended school. Over the years …
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The Rebel Leader: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed Methods Analysis of Rebel Superintendents in Suburban Public Schools
<p>The term rebel is virtually nonexistent in academic literature within the field of educational leadership and maintains a generally negative connotation. This research is intended to cast the term in a new light and allow for conceptualization of the word as a positive descriptor for educational …
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Rebel Discords: George Meredith's Metrical Art
George Meredith is perhaps best known for his innovative contributions to the Victorian novel. Unfortunately, his formal experiments in poetry have gone unnoticed. This dissertation seeks to rectify this problem by examining Meredith's metrical art and the ways in which he departs from the metrical …
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The moral rebel: measurement, correlates, and perceptions
The term “moral rebel” describes an individual who refuses to comply, remain silent, or conform to others when doing so would compromise his or her values. Although researchers have identified individuals whose moral judgments reflect an adherence to “individual principles and conscience,” little …
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REBEL ART. Kunst und Kontext des Vortizismus
REBEL ART ist eine philologische Dissertation über den Vortizismus, deren Ziel es ist, ein differenziertes Bild dieser englischen Avantgardebewegung zu zeichnen. Der Vortizismus wird hier im Hinblick auf seine künstlerischen und theoretischen Erträge untersucht. Europäische Einflüsse kommen ebenso …
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John Milton: A Cause Without a Rebel
John Milton has been frequently associated with rebellion, both by modern scholars and by his contemporaries. Objectively speaking, he may very well be a rebel; however, looking to his own works complicates the issue. In fact, Milton makes very clear in his writing, especially in The Tenure of …
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Why Refugees Rebel: Militarization in Jordan and Worldwide
Why do some refugee groups militarize while others do not? Existing literature focuses on structural explanations and neglects factors related to refugee groups themselves. While acknowledging the importance of exogenous factors in enabling militarization, I fill this gap by proposing a framework …
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Insurgent armies : explaining military loyalty after rebel victory
… comparative fashion. To explain variation in ex-rebel commander behavior across and within states where armed movements seize power, my argument highlights the centrality of wartime institution-building. Threats to insurgent group survival cause variation in two types of institutions: leadership …
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Rebel leaders and conflict processes: An individual level analysis
… investigation. A concentration on rebel leaders in the study of conflict promises a good amount of potential for obtaining interesting findings. This dissertation examines rebel leader survival and rebel leaders’ influence on various conflict processes. It demonstrates that relative …
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How Civil Wars End: The Influence of Rebel Groups
… attention to strategic interactions between rebels and states, including how rebel groups mutate and shape competition to reach different conflict outcomes. Yet, the critical link between rebel groups - their pre-war organisations, foundations, and coercive capacities - with conflict outcomes …
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How Civil Wars End: The Influence of Rebel Groups
… attention to strategic interactions between rebels and states, including how rebel groups mutate and shape competition to reach different conflict outcomes. Yet, the critical link between rebel groups - their pre-war organisations, foundations, and coercive capacities - with conflict outcomes …
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In the Shadow of Rivalry: Rebel Alliances and Civil War
… via a new dataset on alliances between rebel groups during civil wars from 1944 to 2001. The series of logistical models in Chapter 3 indicates that alliances marked by rivalry and competition are indeed more likely to lead to rebel victories. Yet, the analysis also demonstrates that …
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Insurgents, Rebel Governance and State-building in sub-Saharan Africa
The scholarship on rebel governance has largely focused on understanding how rebels govern during conflict. However, little is known about how rebel governance influences long-term state reconstruction after conflict. The main objective of this research is to address this gap. The research also …
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Learning to Rebel: Socialist Youth Activism in Contemporary Buenos Aires
"Photography in ethnography. As an experienced filmmaker and an award-winning photographer, I have always paid close attention to the visual world. In my ethnography I attempt to use photographs in a more integrative and meaningful manner than the illustrative role they usually play (i.e. ""here is …
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Inter -Rebel Group Dynamics: Cooperation or Competition. The Case of South Asia
… raises the question: under what conditions do rebel groups cooperate or compete with each other? It deviates from the standard explorations into political, economic and social factors that affect the onset, duration and termination of internal conflicts. These analyses often treat internal …
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Negotiating justice, rebel behaviors, and war outcomes in the era of accountability
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Rebel youth: The history of LGBT youth organizing in post-Stonewall America
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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WHY FIGHT WHEN YOU CAN RULE TOGETHER? REBEL POWER-SHARING DURING CIVIL WARS
Rebel groups operating in multi-ethnic societies during civil wars face complex challenges in consolidating territorial control and establishing governance structures that are inclusive of diverse ethnic constituencies. While existing literature has extensively studied the violent dynamics between …
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