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Revista Científica General José María Córdova, 2019 This article addresses the terrorist acts perpetrated by illegal armed actors during 1990-2000, as well as the policies related to national security. The role of a society in the relationship with terrorism is stressed as a coercive method used to gain ...
Jaime Alfonso Cubides Cárdenas +3 more
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The Causes of Kidnapping and its Implications on Nigeria
, 2020 The incessant incidences of kidnapping in Nigeria have grown into a severe National threat to its society and is ravaging the country’s socioeconomic wellbeing. The study aims to explore the national security and socioeconomic implications of this menace.
Yusuf Ibrahim, A. Ahmad
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Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considering accusations of kidnapping made by women's families against men belonging to a different religion in instances of interfaith desire, I ...
Angad Singh
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Effects of banditry on primary health care delivery in north-western Nigeria
Global BiosecurityThis study investigated the effects of banditry on primary health care delivery in north-western Nigeria. Banditry has emerged as a critical concern in recent years in the region, affecting many sectors including healthcare systems.
Nasiru Sani +3 more
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Spatial practices in the city: The kidnapping of an arts organization
BAR: Brazilian Administration Review, 2019 Spatial practices and resistance processes play an important role in the organization of a city. In this context, we propose a study aimed at understanding the spatial practices of ruptures imbricated in the process of resistance manifested in the ...
Mariana Maia Bezerra +3 more
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PLoS Medicine, 2017 Background In August 2014, the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) attacked the Yazidi religious minority living in the area of Mount Sinjar in Nineveh governorate, Iraq.
Valeria Cetorelli +3 more
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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History, EarlyView.Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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A Kidnapping Story: How Coxsackievirus B3 and Its Host Cell Interact.
Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, 2019 Infections with Coxsackievirus B3 and other members of the enterovirus genus are a common reason for myocarditis and sudden cardiac death in modern society.
S. Peischard +4 more
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