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Militias in Civil Wars

open access: yesJournal of Conflict Resolution, 2015
Militias are an empirical phenomenon that has been overlooked by current research on civil war. Yet, it is a phenomenon that is crucial for understanding political violence, civil war, post-conflict politics, and authoritarianism. Militias or paramilitaries are armed groups that operate alongside regular security forces or work independently of the ...
Corinna Jentzsch, Stathis N. Kalyvas
exaly   +6 more sources

States, the security sector, and the monopoly of violence: A new database on pro-government militias [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Peace Research, 2013
This article introduces the global Pro-Government Militias Database (PGMD). Despite the devastating record of some pro-government groups, there has been little research on why these forces form, under what conditions they are most likely to act, and how ...
Will Lowe   +2 more
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The Impact of Pro-Government Militias on Human Rights Violations [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Interactions, 2014
New data show that between 1982 and 2007, in over 60 countries governments were linked to and cooperated with informal armed groups within their own borders.
Neil James Mitchell   +2 more
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Civilian self-defense militias in civil war [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Interactions, 2019
To mitigate the costs associated with suppressing rebellion, states may rely on civilian self-defense militias to protect their territory from rebel groups. However, this decision is also costly, given that these self-defense groups may undermine control
Navin Bapat   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources
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Militia

2022
Abstract Article IX addresses the militia, which existed in Ohio before statehood. The Northwest Ordinance provided for the appointment of the governor as the commander-in-chief of the militia with the power to appoint all officers below the rank of general.
Steven H. Steinglass, Gino J. Scarselli
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Militia

2020
Abstract This chapter describes Article XVII of the Colorado Constitution, authorizing the state militia. The Article establishes and defines the militia, now called the Colorado National Guard. Section 2 requires that rules for the Guard conform to regulations governing the U.S. Army.
Richard B. Collins   +2 more
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The Militia, a Legal and Social Movement Analysis: Will the Real Militia Please Stand Up? Militia Hate Group or the Constitutional Militia?

Sociological Focus, 2000
Abstract Some legal analysts charge that the militia maintains clear ties to white supremacist organizations, but little research has actually examined the ideology of militia groups (Williams 1996; Stern 1995; Dees and Corcoran 1996; Barkun 1998; Abanes 1996).
Rebecca S. Katz, Joey Bailey
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Blackstone's Support for the Militia

The American Journal of Legal History, 2000
First published online: 01 January ...
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Violence and Illegal Deforestation: The Crimes of “Environmental Militias” in the Amazon Forest

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 2022
Marcelo Fetz   +1 more
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