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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
wiley   +1 more source

The international legal dimensions of environmental peacebuilding

, 2023
Environmental factors increasingly define today’s global security landscape. In recognition of the role that environmental factors play in triggering, fueling and sustaining armed conflicts at the local, regional and even global level, environmental peacebuilding has emerged as a new field of research and practice. This chapter introduces the reader to
Dam, D.A., Sjöstedt, B.
openaire   +3 more sources

Tagging the Emirate: Language, Coordination and the Taliban's Digital Pursuit of Legitimacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how political actors leverage social media in Afghanistan as a tool for political legitimation. Framing social media as a potential supply of legitimacy, it analysed X (formerly known as Twitter) content posted by the former Afghan government, humanitarian and Taliban political accounts between January 2020 and December ...
Hannah Oates
wiley   +1 more source

Diverse understandings and values of nature at the peace–environment nexus: a critical analysis and policy implications towards decolonial peace

Ecology and Society
Scholarship in peace and conflict studies is paying increasing attention to the role of the environment for conflict transformation and peacebuilding. However, a closer analysis on how different understandings of “nature” implicate policy proposals and ...
Maria Andrea Nardi, Torsten Krause, Fariborz Zelli   +2 more
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The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract In divided societies, can museums contribute to healing and recovery? While efforts to memorialize past violence typically aim to promote tolerance and reconciliation, remembering could exacerbate divisions in recovering societies where the past is deeply contested. We examine a transitional justice museum exhibit in Northern Ireland.
Laia Balcells, Elsa Voytas
wiley   +1 more source

Rebuilding trust in national police: The case of the UN mission in Mali

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract International interventions often aim to reinforce both capacity as well as perceived legitimacy of national security forces. However, how peacekeeping operations manage to improve trust in the national police has received limited attention. In this article, we evaluate whether and how UN missions can (re‐)build trust in the national police ...
Nadine Ansorg, Zorzeta Bakaki, Jessica Di Salvatore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The roles and values of the natural environment in Northern Uganda’s peace process: a conceptual document analysis

Ecology and Society
Over the past years, the natural environment has increasingly become instrumental in peace policies and the focus of study in peace and conflict research.
Maria Andrea Nardi, Alice Kasznar
doaj   +1 more source

Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar's Borderlands

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

The climate security sensitivity tool: a theoretical approach to peace-positive climate adaptation in agricultural development

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Climate adaptation programs that promote climate-smart agricultural technologies, practices, and services are widely recognized for their role in strengthening resilience.
Carolina Sarzana, Ignacio Madurga-Lopez, Stephanie Jaquet, Julian Higuera-Florez, Grazia Pacillo, Mathieu Ouedraogo   +5 more
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Affective Scaffolds, Expressive Arts, and Cognition

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
Some theorists have argued that cognitive agents engineer their environment to sustain and amply their cognitive abilities, and also that elements of the surrounding world sometimes play a crucial role in evoking and sustaining emotion.
Michelle eMaiese
doaj   +1 more source