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Syria – a Best Case, a Worst Case and two Most Likely Scenarios

open access: yesPerspectives on Terrorism, 2013
A decade after the bad seeds of sectarian conflict and instability have been firmly planted in Iraq, it takes little imagination to see them growing even worse in Syria. The mayhem in Syria defies every description: mass-murders and individual atrocities
Philipp Holtmann
doaj  

Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
wiley   +1 more source

The Downgrading of Stalin as Seen from the Free World [PDF]

open access: yes, 1956
Address by Honorable William P. Rogers, Deputy Attorney General of the United States, on the occasion of Bryant\u27s 83rd Commencement, Providence, Rhode Island, Friday, August 3, 1956 at 10a ...
Rogers, William P.
core   +1 more source

Weaponizing Kinship: A Demographic Analysis of Bereavement in the Colombian Conflict

open access: yesPopulation and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The ongoing Colombian armed conflict has produced widespread homicides and enforced disappearances, as armed actors used violence to terrorize communities and consolidate power. Family bereavement—one of the most pervasive and enduring consequences of this violence—remains critically understudied from a quantitative perspective.
Enrique Acosta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Syria and the Responsibility to Protect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The civilian protection agenda has tried to fill critical gaps in the existing normative architecture through the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and protection of civilians (POC) as sibling norms.1 Despite these two valuable additions to the repertoire ...
Thakur, Ramesh
core  

AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
wiley   +1 more source

Proximity to settlements in the West Bank shifts protest behavior toward higher‐risk actions and increases perceived collective injustice

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Engagement in political conflict has been linked to various material and psychological motives, while the role of perceived collective injustice remains empirically contested. We examine this hypothesis for protest behavior in the West Bank.
Nils Mallock, Christian Krekel
wiley   +1 more source

Syria and the red lines of international law. CEPS Commentary, 4 September 2013 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
As the US and its allies France and Turkey dither over whether or not to punish Assad for having used sarin gas to kill his own people, the crucial question is: What response might the outside world legally take without the authority of the UN Security ...
Blockmans, Steven.
core  

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

open access: yesPolitical 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

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