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Professionalism Under Fire: Canadian Implementation of the Medak Pocket Agreement, Croatia 1993 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
For many Canadians, the Somalia Affair became a symbol of their armed forces in the 1990s. Intense media coverage of a Somali teen’s murder by Canadian paratroopers, its cover-up by senior bureaucrats and officers at National Defence Headquarters and a ...
Windsor, Lee A.
core   +1 more source

Fostering change: Using the co‐production of services by the state and non‐profits to combat violence within the Israeli Arab community

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the role of nonprofit organisations established and operated by Arab citizens of Israel that work with youth in government policies aimed at integrating the Arab population and addressing community violence. Using content analysis of government documents and interviews, we investigate how this co‐production is evident in ...
Jawad Abu Younis, Anna Uster, Itai Beeri
wiley   +1 more source

Serosurvey of Borrelia burgdorferi infection among U.S. military personnel: a low risk of infection. [PDF]

open access: bronze, 2001
T L Barker   +7 more
openalex   +1 more source

Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden

open access: yesScandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
wiley   +1 more source

‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Severe impact of the 1918-19 pandemic influenza in a national military force [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The impact of pandemic influenza on the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) in 1918-19 has never been studied using modern epidemiological methods. Therefore we analysed mortality and descriptive data from various sources for these military personnel.
Baker, Michael G.   +3 more
core  

Context‐Appropriate Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Care of Explosive Ordnance Casualties in Low‐Resource Settings

open access: yes
World Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Nina Weston   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Selling soldiering: Marketisation, gender complementarity and the promise of military femininity in 1990s Sweden

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the first large‐scale attempts to recruit women as soldiers and officers in 1990s Sweden, focusing on the techniques and promises employed by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). Building on a wide range of documents and audiovisual sources, we demonstrate how the SAF utilised various marketing techniques, including ...
Sanna Strand, Fia Cottrell‐Sundevall
wiley   +1 more source

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