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Kidnapping for Terrorism Financing: The Case of Boko Haram Group in Northern Nigeria

Salus Journal
Even though the mass media, anecdotal accounts, and popular opinion have consistently alluded to a connection between terrorism financing and kidnapping in northern Nigeria, empirical research focusing on this subject is rare.
Monsurat Isiaka, Usman Ojedokun
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Victimization and Offending in Mexico: The Three-pronged Security Challenges of Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Smuggling [PDF]

, 2020
Gabriella Sanchez, Sheldon X. Zhang
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Links between trauma and psychotic symptoms: Integrating cognitive behavioural and neuropsychoanalytic models of psychosis

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Cognitive‐behavioural therapy for psychosis (CBTp) achieves small to modest effect sizes, which invites the question, ‘What clinical modifications might improve outcomes?’ This paper proposes an integration of CBTp with a neuropsychoanalytic approach that in clinical practice might extend the gains achieved by CBTp alone.
Michael Garrett
wiley   +1 more source

“We have nothing to do with it”: How statements of denial by armed actors shape public perceptions and emotions

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Armed groups operating in conflicts around the world publish statements of denial to dissociate themselves from acts of violence. Existing research argues that armed groups publish denial statements to avoid public backlash, favorably frame the conduct of their campaigns, and distance themselves from unsanctioned actions conducted by rank‐and ...
Ilayda B. Onder, Mark Berlin
wiley   +1 more source

Ending the Code of Silence on Abductions of Aid Workers

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2019
This article discusses the policy of absolute secrecy on abductions adopted by aid organisations. It argues that the information blackout on past and current cases is to a large extent a function of the growing role of private security companies in the ...
Fabrice Weissman
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CAPTIVE MARKETS": THE IMPACT OF KIDNAPPINGS ON CORPORATE INVESTMENT IN COLOMBIA" [PDF]

This paper measures the impact of crime on firm investment by exploiting variation in kidnappings in Colombia from 1996 to 2002. Our central result is that firms invest less when kidnappings target firms. We also find that aggregate crime rates-homicides,
Gsutavo Suarez, Rony Pshisva
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Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s El Material Humano And The Labyrinth Of Postwar Guatemala: On Ethics, Truth, And Justice [PDF]

, 2016
Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s El material humano (2009) grapples with the consequences of Guatemala’s violent past by probing into a once-secret police archive that brings into the present the sufferings of the past.
Buiza, Nanci
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From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Skills formation is a pressing issue for middle‐income countries given the pace of technological change. In Latin America, scholars point to the hierarchical type of capitalism and its segmentalist skills formation system as the main roadblocks to exiting the middle‐income trap.
Aldo Madariaga, Mariana Rangel‐Padilla
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LEGAL REFLECTIONS ON THE DOWNSIDES OF GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION AS A BOOST TO CRIME OF KIDNAPPING FOR RANSOM IN NIGERIA

, 2023
E K Adetifa, Oluwayemi O. Ogunkorode, Vincent O. Adedara   +2 more
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Creole women traders in the nineteenth century [PDF]

, 1980
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 27This paper focuses on how the Sierra Leone women organized their West African trade and how they responded to the special obstacles faced by female traders.
White, E. Frances
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