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Understanding Sexual Violence in the Colombian Armed Conflict: Victim Characteristics, Spatial Clustering, and Temporal Contagion

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Armed Groups

2023
Armed Groups­is the most comprehensive text to provide a framework for categorizing the key actors that pose a threat to today’s security arena—terrorists, mercenaries, insurgents, militias, and transnational criminal organizations—and analyzing their characteristics to provide a thorough overview.
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Theorizing Armed Groups

2020
The following pages set armed groups at the centre of political theory. De-centering the state is set as a fundamental goal for moving theory towards a broader understanding of politics and society. This is accomplished by arguing that armed groups are the key actors responsible for the formation, maintaining and contestation of social order in settled
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How Armed Groups Divide

2022
Abstract This chapter outlines a theory of how armed groups divide and how splinter groups behave. The argument is simple: to understand the extent to which splinters will radicalize and survive, we must understand their motivations for breaking away.
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Binding Armed Opposition Groups

International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 2006
AbstractThis article considers how armed opposition groups fighting in an internal armed conflict are bound by the rules of international humanitarian law despite not being party to the relevant treaties. It assesses a number of explanations—customary international law, general principles of international humanitarian law, rules governing treaties and ...
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Armed groups in modern warfare

Adelphi Series, 2014
UN peacekeepers today do far more than patrol a ceasefire line. In most cases, there is no frontline, no truce, numerous parties and among them some armed groups seeking to undermine a settlement. In short, the UN is attempting to conduct peacekeeping in places where there is no peace to keep.
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Adolescents volunteering for armed forces or armed groups

International Review of the Red Cross, 2003
The focus of attention with regard to “child soldiers” has tended to be on abducted children or those forced or coerced into fighting. When asked, however, many children and young people themselves say that they volunteered. Moreover, when negotiating the Optional Protocol to the
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