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Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2017
Terms like ‘support’ and ‘collaboration’ are often used interchangeably to denote a loose set of acts or attitudes that benefit non-state armed groups (NSAGs).
Ana Arjona
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Terms like ‘support’ and ‘collaboration’ are often used interchangeably to denote a loose set of acts or attitudes that benefit non-state armed groups (NSAGs).
Ana Arjona
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Combat Motivation in Non-State Armed Groups
Terrorism and Political Violence, 2007Existing analyses of non-state armed-group combat motivations are inadequate because they essentialize combat motivation, fail to recognize the polymorphous character of non-state warfare, and confound agency and structure by equating individual combatant motivation with the context of the conflict.
Rune Henriksen, Anthony Vinci
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Non-State Armed Groups and Reparations
2023Abstract Non-State armed groups have often been ignored as being responsible actors in making reparations or derided as not having sufficient capacity to make such redress to their victims. This chapter explores how armed groups do engage in reparations during war and peacetime for a range of motivations and how this can inform ...
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The Responsibility to Protect and Non-State Armed Groups
, 2018 The Majority of chapters in this volume address the question of how legal mechanisms, situated within the ‘zone between’ international human rights and humanitarian law, can better protect civilians against both old and new threats to their security.
WELSH, Jennifer M.
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Introduction: The Challenge of Non-State Armed Groups
Contemporary Security Policy, 2009The study of non-state armed groups (NSAGs) has traditionally been limited to those actors with a political agenda that pose a specific threat to the state and undermine its ability to claim a monopoly over the legitimate use of force within its territory.
Keith Krause, Jennifer Milliken
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How International Humanitarian Law Treaties Bind Non-State Armed Groups
, 2015 This article examines the legal basis underpinning the application of international humanitarian law treaties to non-state armed groups. Although it is widely accepted that international humanitarian law does bind armed groups, the legal basis remains ...
Daragh Murray
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Target Hardening and Non-State Armed Groups’ Target Selection: Evidence from India
Terrorism and Political Violence, 2023This study explores the variation in the non-state armed group (NSAGs)'s behavior concerning target selection. Scholars of transnational terrorism have investigated transnational NSAGs' target selection.
Ilayda B. Onder
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Compliance with International Humanitarian Law by Non-State Armed Groups: How Can It Be Improved?
Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, 2018Hyeran Jo
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Non-state armed groups and state-building in the Arab region: The case of post-Gaddafi Libya
South African Journal of International Affairs, 2022The emergence of armed groups in countries such as Libya presents an opportunity for these actors to be engaged with other political actors in the country concerned with re-building the state.
Buyisile Ntaka, László Csicsmann
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Understanding Violence by Non-State Armed Groups: The Case of the RUF
Civil Wars, 2021This paper uses a case study of Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front to help explain when and where non-state armed groups (NSAGs) use violence, and what type of violence such groups use.
Nicholas Dudek
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