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The Politics of Passage: Studying Checkpoints and Claim Making in Conflict‐affected Settings

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Roadblocks, or checkpoints, are obligatory passage points that are erected by entities claiming authority over a given crossing. They are often the most common everyday interface between civilians and armed actors in conflict‐affected contexts, but are overlooked in studies on either trade or authority amidst conflict.
Peer Schouten   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening women engagement in post-Conflict Peace-building in North-East Nigeria: An interrogation of the UN Resolution 1325

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
The activism towards increased engagement of women participation in peacebuilding process dates back to 1975, from the UN Women conference in Mexico, the 1980 Women Conference in Copenhagen, to the unanimous passage of the UNSCR1325.
Olawale James Gbadeyan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Preparing to face our next enemy [PDF]

open access: yes
Executive summaryThe ADF needs to be prepared for four main tasks: defence of Australian sovereign territory; assist larger international forces; counter-insurgency; and disaster relief.With rising demand for land, resources and food, Australia is at ...
Robert O'
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Controlling a complex metropolis, 1650-1750: politics, parishes and powers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The period from 1650 to 1750 was not characterised by major institutional innovation in the government of London, let alone revolutionary structural change.
Harding, Vanessa
core   +1 more source

Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper enacts a feminist‐posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal ...
Max Ganzin, Diana Ivanycheva
wiley   +1 more source

Mining Royalties and Incentives for Security Operations: Evidence from India's Red Corridor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Can tax regimes shape the incentives of governments to engage in or support counterinsurgency operations? India’s Maoist belt contains a large share of the country’s most valuable mineral deposits. Indian mining royalties benefit the States, but they are
Vanden Eynde, Oliver
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Blast mines: physics, injury mechanisms and vehicle protection. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Since World War II, more vehicles have been lost to land mines than all other threats combined. Anti-vehicular (AV) mines are capable of disabling a heavy vehicle, or completely destroying a lighter vehicle.
Bull, AM   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Black Fugitivity in the Sporting Workplace: The Story of Eniola Aluko

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Being a Black fugitive involves constant movement: to find and cultivate spaces of safety and hope. In this paper, I curate a sporting archive about the UK Black women's elite football player Eniola Aluko to read her as a Black fugitive. I demonstrate how she traversed a racist and anti‐Black sporting workplace—where she was unfairly demonized
Aarti Ratna
wiley   +1 more source

Re-examining the Northern Ireland conflict [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The Northern Ireland conflict has its roots in the failure of the British state-building project to consolidate the territorial gains of colonization in Ireland.
Doyle, John
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