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Breaking Bad or Making Amends? The Dynamics of Internal Conflict After Democratisation

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 88, Issue 5, Page 1149-1163, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of democratisation on internal conflict, with a focus on the timing of effects and the type of conflict involved. Using a local projection‐based difference‐in‐differences approach and a panel of 160 countries from 1919 to 2021, we distinguish between minor (e.g., protests and strikes) and major (e.g., revolutions
Antonis Adam, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
wiley   +1 more source

Looking for Peace in Literary Novels: Imagination as a Tool to Counteract Violence for Peaceful Change?

open access: yesPeace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 233-243, October 2026.
ABSTRACT To investigate how imagination partakes in shaping the spaces in which we think and live, and what processes could help imagining social realities differently, the present work proposes an interweaving of peace and literature. The analysis of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Patrick Süskind's Perfume is founded upon an ...
Nikolena Nocheva
wiley   +1 more source

Affective regimes and ontological security: When empathy threatens the state

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 5, October 2026.
Abstract The ontological security of states may be threatened by the politics of empathy. Empathy—as a contested affective‐political field—has a capacity to both consolidate and unravel dominant understandings of identity, security, political subjectivity, and self‐other relations.
Naomi Head
wiley   +1 more source

Mimicry in the Beelzebul controversy (Mk 3:22–30) as nonviolent resistance

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia
This article investigates Mark 3:22–30. Through both words and deeds of casting out demons with the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus explains the cosmological, spiritual meaning of the essence of casting out demons.
Andreas Hauw
doaj   +1 more source

Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 1426-1448, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Involvement of corporations in international crimes and conflict atrocities, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, are neither isolated events nor uncommon. Importantly, corporate involvement in atrocity crimes is shaped by conditions in “zones of legal risk” (International Commission of Jurists), where gross human rights ...
Susanne Karstedt   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Believing Women: Faith, Agency, and Peacebuilding in Contemporary Cinema

open access: yesReligions
Contemporary cinema increasingly portrays believing women as active moral agents rather than passive figures confined by patriarchal or religious stereotypes.
Irena Sever Globan
doaj   +1 more source

The Opioid Crisis: Maintaining White Privilege Through Race‐Neutral Policy

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 10, October 2026.
ABSTRACT U.S. drug policy has shifted significantly with the opioid crisis. Prior to the year 2000, the “War on Drugs” overtly and aggressively criminalized minorities, most notably Black Americans, whereas nowadays, the U.S. government claims to prioritize universal public health.
Gioia Greco, Shelley Z. Reuter
wiley   +1 more source

Warren County (NC), 1982: Churches as Actors of Environmental Justice

open access: yesJoMaCC
The 1982 protests against a PCB landfill in Warren County, North Carolina, often seen as the symbolic origin of the Environmental Justice Movement, underscore the pivotal role of African American Protestant churches.
Rigodanzo, Michele
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Revolution as a product. Interview with Srđa Popović

open access: yesTiempo Devorado, 2017
Srđa Popović (1973) is one of the founders of the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), a Belgrade-based non-profit institution that defines itself as “an organization that advocates for the use of nonviolence resistance to ...
Carlos González Villa
doaj  

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