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The Deby Clan and the Role of the Army in Chadian Politics
Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2023 For more than 30 years (1990–2021), Chad was ruled by Idriss Deby, one of the most prominent African leaders, who came to power at the head of an armed insurgent group and established a rigidly authoritarian, de facto military regime, but with the ...
T. S. Denisova, S. V. Kostelyanets
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Obrana a strategie (Defence and Strategy), 2020 The text will focus on several Middle East conflict areas where Christian activities and violence have been present in the modern history of the region. In the light of Phil Williams's violent non-state actor (VNSA) typology, it will explain the concept of Middle Eastern Christian violence - from the aggressive-dominant violence seeking to maintain ...
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A New Moving Group in the Local Arm [PDF]
The Astronomical Journal, 2020 Abstract We present a new moving group clustered in kinematics, spatial position, and elemental abundances. Its spatial position is around the center of the Local Arm of the Milky Way. A convergent point method was taken to select candidate member stars.
Xilong Liang +7 more
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In Their Own Words? Methodological Considerations in the Analysis of Terrorist Autobiographies
Journal of Strategic Security, 2012 Despite the growth of terrorism literature in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, there remain several methodological challenges to studying certain aspects of terrorism.
Mary Beth Altier +2 more
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The Legality of Judicial Courts Convened by Non- State Armed Groups [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2019 Establishing courts in territories under domination of non-state armed groups is one of the first actions of that groups for making order and law in that places to trial opposition soldiers, civilians and their own members.
Seyed Hesamoddin Lesani
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Conservative turn, milícias, and elections
Sub\urban, 2023 Brazil is currently experiencing a conservative turn, which has found expression not only in Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency (2019–2022) but also in the phenomenon of so-called milícias expanding in low-income neighborhoods as well as in the emergence of ...
Orlando Santos Junior +2 more
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Neural Bandit with Arm Group Graph
Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2022 Contextual bandits aim to identify among a set of arms the optimal one with the highest reward based on their contextual information. Motivated by the fact that the arms usually exhibit group behaviors and the mutual impacts exist among groups, we introduce a new model, Arm Group Graph (AGG), where the nodes represent the groups of arms and the ...
Yunzhe Qi, Yikun Ban, Jingrui He
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Urban Resources and Their Linkage to Political Agendas for Armed Groups in Cities
Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021 Rapid urbanisation in countries undergoing or recovering from armed conflict has imposed severe strain on public services and governance. It has also been accompanied by increasing policy and academic concern about the vulnerability of cities to armed ...
Antônio Sampaio
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, 2021 The relationship between armed groups and mining is complex. Reports of armed interference in mining are provided by the United Nations (UN) Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and reported in the literature, including which groups have been found to operate in which areas.
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Journal for Deradicalization, 2021 Though many studies have analysed the variations in the use of violence by armed groups, an overall understanding of the phenomenon remains challenging. Building on the work addressing the role of institutions and ideology in armed group behaviour, this ...
Valeria Scuto
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