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The article deals with the issues of war and peace, international security, and the features of modern conflicts. It is noted that, although a powerful legal and organizational infrastructure has been constructed on the basis of the UN, which is engaged ...
Vitalii E. Zhuravlev
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Opportunity Costs Pacifism [PDF]
AbstractIf the resources used to wage wars could be spent elsewhere and save more lives, does this mean that wars are unjustified? This article considers this question, which has been largely overlooked by Just War Theorists and pacifists. It focuses on whether the opportunity costs of war lead to a form of pacifism, which it calls ‘Opportunity Costs ...
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The kingdom's two bodies? : corporeal rhetoric and royal authority during the religious wars [PDF]
The conventional discourse of the body politic assumed a peculiar resonance during the French religious wars due to the unique identification of the king with the well-being of his kingdom.
Roberts, Penny
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Neither Hero nor Villain: The Determinants of Confidence in the UPP Police [PDF]
In this article we analyze the determinants of confidence in the Police Pacification Units ( Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora – UPPs). During their existence (2008-2018), “pacification” was represented by the media as an institutional hybrid which moved ...
Ludmila Mendonça Lopes Ribeiro +1 more
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La lógica de la pacificación: Guerra-policía-acumulación [PDF]
This article argues that the concept of pacification allows us to understand the productive role that state violence plays in securing capital and fabricating bourgeois order.
Neocleous, MA
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On Unstable Ground: Issues Involved in Greening Space in the Rocinha Favela of Rio De Janeiro
This paper is based on fieldwork undertaken in conjunction with Green My Favela, a land use restoration project that works with informal and vulnerable income sector residents to reclaim chronically degraded public areas by creating gardens inside the ...
Lea Rekow
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This article is interested in the contradictory articulation, within the first Wars of Religion (around 1562-around 1574), of injunctions to forget, coming from the monarchy, and claims to remember, emanating from confessional communities, whether ...
Jérémie Foa
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From ‘pacification’ to ‘licence-to-kill’: Favela residents’ experience with the UPP from 2011-2018
This article draws on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork to explore residents’ everyday experiences of urban militarisation in a ‘pacified’ favela in Brazil.
Åsne Håndlykken-Luz
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Transforming informal communities through discourse intervention:RioOnWatch, favelas and the 2016 Olympic Games [PDF]
In August 2016, tens of thousands of journalists descended on Rio de Janeiro to cover the summer Olympic Games held in that city. While the majority covered the action on the track, many sought stories about the city itself, world famous for startling ...
Talbot, Adam
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Quand la favela devient ‘comunidade’ : nomination et contrôle social
Today in Brazil the norm is no longer to talk about favela but about comunidade (community), to the point that, if the two terms are still mutually and significantly substitutable, one can venture to predict that, in a near future, favela will appear ...
Patrick Dahlet
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