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A century of assessment: A systematic review of biothreat risk assessments

open access: yesRisk Analysis, EarlyView.
Abstract Throughout the past century, assessments of the risks and benefits posed by high‐consequence biological agents have guided US decision‐making on weapons research, countermeasure development, and security policy. However, the dispersed nature of these biothreat risk assessments has presented various difficulties, such as duplicative effort ...
Claire Atkerson, Michael T Parker
wiley   +1 more source

The Local is Global: Broker for Human Rights “Florence Kitchelt, Connecticut Peace Activist and Feminist,” 1920-1961 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper, I will explore the role of local peace activist and feminist, Florence Ledyard Kitchelt (1874-1961) in supporting social justice, equality, and world peace.
Moon, Danelle L
core   +1 more source

Conditions for disarmament [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1985
Jack N. Barkenbus, Alvin M. Weinberg
openaire   +1 more source

“Semper supra”? Trump administration policy narratives and the creation of the space force

open access: yesReview of Policy Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2019, the Donald Trump administration rejected the draft Treaty on the Prevention of Placement of Weapons in Space (PPWT) in the UN Conference on Disarmament and instead created the Space Force, the first new US military service branch established in decades.
Jeffrey S. Lantis
wiley   +1 more source

Voices of Villa Hermosa: impact of collective demobilizations and reinsertions of former paramilitary members on the inhabitants of the Comuna 8 of Medellín

open access: yesOñati 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
doaj  

Daring to doubt! Shaftesbury, doubt, and polite conversation

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Shaftesbury thought that dogmatism was an epistemic vice that violated the norms of good inquiry by inhibiting the proper exercise of reason. One way that Shaftesbury attempted to defend against dogmatic thought and culture was to recommend that society followed the norms of what he called “polite conversation.” This notion has received a fair
Sean Maroney
wiley   +1 more source

DEBATING DISARMAMENT: [PDF]

open access: bronze, 2007
Christopher A. Ford
openalex   +1 more source

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