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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"paramilitary"”.
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Soldiers Without Uniforms: CIA Paramilitary Operations in Afghanistan
The history of paramilitary operations conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been a long and controversial one. Having first been championed by William Donovan during World War II, the deployment of CIA paramilitary forces has been widely debated for decades. While some scholars …
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Paramilitary imprisonment in Northern Ireland 1969-1999 : resistance, management & release
… conflict in Northern Ireland, the treatment of paramilitary prisoners, and in particular the question as to whether and to what extent their political motivation has been recognised by the prison authorities, has been a defining issue for all of the protagonists. Prisoners have asserted their …
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Front Line Weimar: Paramilitary Mobilization and Masculine Representation in Postwar Germany
… of the war. The dissertation argues that paramilitary mobilization offered new ways of thinking about oneself as ""German"" and ""male"" in the public sphere and created active civic participation rooted in the male experience of soldiering. A military bond sustained by sport, …
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Braving the swarm : lowering anticipated group bias in integrated fire/police units facing paramilitary terrorism
The Fire the City of New York (FDNY) has responded to the consequences of terrorist incidents for decades, but global trends in active-shooter terrorism may force firefighters to operate in an active, hostile environment, and not just in the aftermath of attacks. In assault-style terrorism, a …
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The path from paramilitary to politics: Gerry Adams, Sinn Féin, and the Good Friday Agreement: 1986-1998
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Speeding into Action: The Influence of Paramilitary Culture on Disaster Response Organizations in the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
This dissertation examines the influence of paramilitary professional cultural attributes on the speed at which disaster response organizations (DROs) recognize, respond, organize, and take action in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. Three agencies are examined: the U.S. Coast Guard, the …
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Forging the "Iron Fist" Inside the "Velvet Glove": a Case Study in the Character and Culture of a Police Paramilitary Unit
… and a significant change in the use of police paramilitary units. This case study uses quantitative data, field research and in-depth interviews to inquire into a Southern police department's past and current use of their Emergency Response Unit. Through the research, a more revealing look at …
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Internal Security and Military Reorganization: The Rise of Paramilitaries in Developing Societies
… (regular militaries). It argues that paramilitary growth represents a political-military innovation that emerges from the circumstances of state formation and the necessity for regime protection. However, this need is manifested differently and with varying consequences across …
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The White International: anatomy of a transnational radical revisionist plot in Central Europe after World War I.
… Versailles Treaty and unsuccessful attempts by paramilitary units to recover losses in the Baltic produced in post-war Germany an anti-Bolshevik, anti-Entente, radical right-wing cabal of officers with General Ludendorff and Colonel Bauer at its core. Mistakenly citing a lack of breadth as one …
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Alternative Ulster: voices of political radicalism, cultural empowerment and social dissent within loyalist paramilitarism in Northern Ireland since 1966
… been threaded throughout the history of loyalist paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland since the outbreak of the modern troubles in the mid-1960s - a political voice that would often speak in more radical tones than anything else emanating from within a fractured Ulster unionism since the …
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The trajectory of male homosexuality in Nazism
… the First World War were attracted to the Nazi paramilitary unit, Sturmabteilung (SA), led by Ernst Röhm, a well-known gay man. The SA leaders promoted close male bonds among the members, which led to homoerotic relationships. If homoerotism was permitted within the early Nazi Party, why was …
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Urban Crime in Latin America: A Case Study from Medellín, Colombia
… of the <em>Bloque Cacique Nutibara</em> paramilitary organization. A series of Paired Sample T-Tests show that <em>Operación Orión</em> and the paramilitary demobilization seem to have contributed to falling human rights abuses and homicides, respectively. Additionally, a one-way ANOVA …
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Talking stones : the politics of memorialisation in post-conflict Northern Ireland
… social, political and ideological reasons behind paramilitary-related memorialisation of the conflict, employing qualitative evidence from my interviews and from attendance at commemorative events. Chapter 5 investigates how and to what purpose paramilitary groups project discrete narratives about …
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Security Sector Change in Georgia, 1985 - 2008 Local Dynamics, Politics of Reform and Paramilitaries
… change and reform of policing institutions. The paramilitary is identified and examined as a key focus for analysis. The research shows that political dynamics among a few political elites determined the course of security sector change in Georgia. Despite ample external assistance, domestic …
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Change and stability: Agta kinship in a history of uncertainty
… them than whether they act as foragers, traders, paramilitary scouts, farmers, or wage laborers. They work as kinfolk. I use a formal theory of kinship (Lehman and Witz 1974, Witz and Lehman 1979, Lehman 1993) to illustrate how Agta society operates through kinship. This study demonstrates that …
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Sexual violence victim-witnesses at the Special Court for Sierra Leone: Have lessons from ICTR been learnt?
… from the government armed forces, rebel groups, paramilitary groups and even peace keeping forces. The countries whose armed conflicts were characterised by acts of rape and sexual violence include; Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Uganda, Sudan, Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina), …
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An investigation into the irregular military dynamics in Yugoslavia, 1992-1995
… (1991-1995). While it is broadly accepted that paramilitary or irregular units have been involved in practically every case of genocide in the modern world, detailed analysis of these dynamics is rare. A consequence of paramilitary participation in atrocity crises –which can be seen in academic …
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The Destruction of a Society: A Qualitative Examination of the Use of Rape as a Military Tool
… be incorporated into the strategy of military or paramilitary groups during periods of conflict. I examine three societies, Rwanda , the former Yugoslavia , and Cambodia in a comparative analysis. To determine what characteristics make societies more likely to engage in rape as a military tool, I …
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Conflict and child labor: evidence from poor households in Colombia
… However, the later effect is the opposite for Paramilitary attacks.
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Militarisation of conservation, violence and local people: the case of Sikumi Forest Reserve in Zimbabwe
… embedded in daily patrol activities of the state paramilitary unit responsible for conservation enforcement and in experiences, with the practice of militarisation, of people living around Sikumi Forest Reserve in Zimbabwe. The study demonstrates that the form and texture of militarisation in …
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