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Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Aid Activities
Nous Academy Journal, 2023 Although humanitarian aid activities aim to relieve suffering and improve the existing situation, in some cases this goodwill can do more harm than good. There are moral dilemmas experienced for various reasons on the basis of this. A humanitarian action
Sedanur Karakoç
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Assessment of the perioperative period in civilians injured in the Syrian Civil War [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology, 2015 Background: wars and its challenges have historically afflicted humanity. In Syria, severe injuries occurred due to firearms and explosives used in the war between government forces and civilians for a period of over 2 years.
Sedat Hakimoglu +9 more
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A Gendered Imperative: Does Sexual Violence Attract UN Attention in Civil Wars?
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2020 There is increasing awareness that sexual violence is distinct from other aspects of civilian victimization in civil wars. Few studies have examined the independent impact of such violence on responses to civil wars as compared to “traditional” forms of ...
Michelle Benson, Theodora-Ismene Gizelis
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Civil Wars and Their Aftermath
Latin American Research Review, 2020 This essay reviews the following works: Rebelocracy: Social Order in the Colombian Civil War. By Ana Arjona. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xxii + 401. $33.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781107571594.
Noam Lupu
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Persistence of Civil Wars [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 A notable feature of post–World War II civil wars is their very long average duration. We provide a theory of the persistence of civil wars. The civilian government can successfully defeat rebellious factions only by creating a relatively strong army.
Acemoglu D, Ticchi D, Vindigni A
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Kentron, 2023 The civil wars of the end of Roman Republic in Lucan’s Pharsalia reveal paroxysmal exactions whose trauma is perceptible as far on citizens’ bodies as on Rome’s one.
Pierre-Alain Caltot
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Indirect Interventions in Civil Wars
Czech Journal of International Relations, 2019 Current research on motivational sources of military interventions in civil wars frequently assumes that states intervene due to direct interests in the civil war country.
Kamil Klosek
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Middle Eastern Proxy Wars Waged on the Background of Civil Wars
Vojenské rozhledy, 2021 The paper argues that proxy war is an increasingly often used tool in the Middle East, in the already conflicted territories where international involvement is not only enabled, but also attracted and encouraged by the international law for the purpose ...
Mirela Atanasiu
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The idea of civil war in thirteenth and fourteenth-century - Byzantium [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2012 This paper discusses thirteenth and fourteenth-century Byzantine perceptions of civil wars, which were a common feature in the late Byzantine period. It investigates how the most important authors of the period understood and defined the idea of civil
Kyriakidis Savvas
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Networks of Cooperation: Rebel Alliances in Fragmented Civil Wars
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2019 When rebels make alliances, what informs their choice of allies? Civil wars are rarely simple contests between rebels and incumbent regimes. Rather, rival militant networks provide the context in which these fragmented conflicts unfold.
E. K. Gade +3 more
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