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Appropriation, Indigenous knowledge, and generative AI
American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 125-127, May 2026.Abstract This commentary examines the relationship between First Nations’ knowledge, AI, and cultural appropriation from the perspective of an Indigenous scholar and journal editor. The author highlights the potential conflicts between who controls AI and First Nations sovereignty.
Charles Menzies (hagwil hayetsk)
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Roadblocks, Relationality and Resilient Resistance in Post‐coup Myanmar
Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 624-646, May 2026.ABSTRACT Following Myanmar's military coup in February 2021, the State Administrative Council (SAC) established checkpoints between towns under its control and rural areas increasingly governed by anti‐junta resistance forces. Here, military personnel command trade and extort from people, inflating the price of consumer goods and agricultural inputs ...
Gerard McCarthy, Kyle Nyana
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Insecurity and the State’s Humanitarian Intervention in Northern Nigeria
International Studies Journal, 2022 Insecurity in Northern Nigeria has become hydra-headed and wide spreadas it protracts. With Boko Haram insurgency in the North East, Armed Banditry in the North West and Pastoralists’Militias in North Central notwithstanding the inundated ethno ...
Emmanuel Achus Jah +2 more
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Isbaaro: Checkpoints and World Making beyond the State in Somalia
Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 551-577, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the dynamics of checkpoint authority in Somalia, focusing on how kinship, mobility and checkpoint practices intersect to shape political and social orders. Challenging the notion that checkpoint governance is either an expression of state‐like power or indicative of the state's absence, the authors argue that Somali ...
Peer Schouten +2 more
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Armed Banditry, Artisanal Mining, and the Changing Security Landscape of North-Central Nigeria
Bulletin of "Carol I" National Defense UniversityThe study aims to examine the relationship between artisanal mining and insecurity in North-Central Nigeria, with particular attention to the roles of state and non-state actors in shaping conflict dynamics within mining communities.
Ibrahim Ogirima O. SALAWU +4 more
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Local Defence (Self-Defence) in Lithuania during the Nazi German Occupation (1941–1944)
Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2002 In the summer of 1943 a substantial turning point took place in the Eastern front, the Germans lost their strategic initiative and were dislodged far to the West. Lithuania was not anymore a remote and quite country to protect their rear. In summer 1943
Rimantas Zizas
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International Studies JournalThe north-western region of Nigeria has been hit by an unprecedented wave of insecurity such as kidnapping for ransom, cattle rustling and armed banditry which has led to maiming, killings, displacements of people and disruption of socio-economic ...
TUKUR ABDULKADIR, ABDULNASIR UMAR
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Un bandolero para el recuerdo: Efraín González también conocido como
Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2006 The purpose of this article is to show the different ways that Efraín González, a very well known bandit from the period of la Violencia, is remembered.
Claudia Steiner
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Proliferation of Small Arm and Light Weapon AND Insecurity in Northwestern Nigeria: A Review
Bulletin of "Carol I" National Defense UniversityThis paper critically reviews the proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) in Northwestern Nigeria, examining their sources, implications, and connections to rising insecurity. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly and institutional literature,
Mubarak Sulaiman JAMIU
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Insurgency and Armed Banditry in Central Nigeria: Dissecting the Existing Policy Options
International Journal of Contemporary Security StudiesThis study examines the security challenges posed by insurgency and armed banditry in Central Nigeria and proposes policy options to mitigate these issues. A secure nation ensures development. Unfortunately, Central Nigeria is drifting apart in this aspect because of the activities of insurgency and armed banditry.
Onimisi, Timothy, Basil Chuka, Okoli
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