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Broken Communities: Structural Violence, Dispossession, and the Reign of Terror in Northwestern Nigeria

open access: yesPeace &Change, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do some pastoralists join bandit groups in Nigeria? This conundrum is yet to be explored in the emerging scholarly literature on pastoral banditry in Nigeria's troubled northwest region. Whereas the upsurge in pastoralist‐related banditry has been predominantly explicated with the theoretical frameworks of ungoverned spaces and relative ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
wiley   +1 more source

The Disarmament Dividend [PDF]

open access: bronze, 1994
Jean‐Claude Berthélemy   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

Reconstruction at the meso level: Rebuilding everyday life in post‐conflict Malakand, Pakistan

open access: yesPeace &Change, EarlyView.
Abstract Meso‐level institutions are integral to everyday life but are often overlooked in post‐civil war rebuilding efforts. This study, based on a qualitative dataset of 27 interviews and 11 focus groups conducted in Malakand Division, Pakistan, reveals that many of the institutions that are vital to local stakeholders have been neglected in the ...
Syed Rashid Ali   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Em nome da autonomia e do desenvolvimento

open access: yesMeridiano 47, 2017
The objective is to examine the positions adopted by Brazil on nuclear non-proliferation, disarmament and peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the beginning of this century.
Diego Santos Vieira de Jesus
doaj  

033. Chemical Disarmament in Iraq: Notes on the Medical Support [PDF]

open access: bronze, 1995
C. Bettanger   +4 more
openalex   +1 more source

Lessons from the void: What Boltzmann brains teach

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Some physical theories predict that almost all brains in the universe are Boltzmann brains, that is, short‐lived disembodied brains that are accidentally assembled as a result of thermodynamic or quantum fluctuations. Physicists and philosophers of physics widely regard this proliferation as unacceptable, and so take its prediction as a basis ...
Bradford Saad
wiley   +1 more source

The adoption of the Swedish carbon tax: Influences and interactions across multiple political levels, jurisdictions, and policy areas

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract When Sweden adopted its carbon tax in 1990, it was as one of the first of its kind worldwide. While the adoption of the tax has been attributed to its inclusion in the Swedish tax reform, undoubtedly playing a crucial role, the reform does not in itself explain how the Swedish carbon tax came about or why it became part of the reform package ...
Åsa Knaggård, Roger Hildingsson
wiley   +1 more source

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