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Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.Abstract Philosophical debates about the nature of perception are standardly informed by an empirical assumption about folk beliefs: They assume there is such a thing as “the” common‐sense conception of vision, and that this conception is captured by Direct Realism.
Eugen Fischer +2 more
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Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2012 The purpose of this research is to identify the impact that the reinsertion into society of former Colombian paramilitary members has had on the normative plurality existing in one urban settlement of Medellín known as “Comuna 8”.
Ana Maria Iannini Uribe
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Public Administration Country Study: Kazakhstan—Post‐Soviet Legacy, Modernisation, and Hybridity
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Kazakhstan is a post‐Soviet upper middle‐income country which claims to be a leader in regional governance in Central Asia. A key component of its development strategy since independence in 1991 has been public administration reform. This paper examines the post‐Soviet public administration legacy, its features, and how Kazakhstan has ...
Colin Knox, Serik Orazgaliyev
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HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF CREATING NON-NUCLEAR ZONES
Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2012 The article views the political situation of the middle of the lat century, which promoted not only the elaboration of the legal conception of non-nuclear zones, but also their actual creation in the following years.
O. V. Metelina
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Quantifying Mozambique's Peace Dividend: An Application of the Synthetic Control Method
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using the synthetic control method and data from 20 African countries, this study quantifies the peace dividend in Mozambique, a country that experienced over 15 years of civil war. More specifically, we use data from 1977 to 2018 to investigate whether the end of the civil war in Mozambique in 1992 brought significant benefits to the country ...
Tendai Gwatidzo, Aldo Sitoe, Busani Moyo
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Iraq's popular mobilisation forces: the possibilities for Disarmament, Demobilisation & Reintegration [PDF]
, 2019 Hayder Al-Khafaji
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Disentangling the Determinants of Successful Demobilization and Reintegration [PDF]
Since 1989, international efforts to end protracted conflicts in Africa, Latin America, and Asia have included sustained investments in the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) of combatants from the warring parties.
Jeremy Weinstein, Macartan Humphreys
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Encountering (im)probable wit: Religious puns in an Indonesian post‐conflict setting
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper analyses religion‐related humour in the post‐conflict setting of the Moluccas, Indonesia, which were haunted by interreligious violence in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It is concerned with religious puns told among Hadhramis, Indonesians of Arab descent, whose ancestors migrated in pre‐colonial and colonial times from the ...
Martin Slama
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Worlding geographies: A question of languages
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Abstract This intervention responds to the ‘Geography in the World’ series, addressing the question from two angles. Firstly, it shifts the focus from geography in the world to worlding geographies. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of ‘becoming‐minority’, it encourages reflection on the current geography of knowledge production as a historical,
Anne‐Laure Amilhat Szary +9 more
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