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Terror in Galilee: British-Jewish collaboration and the Special Night Squads in Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1938–39 [PDF]
, 2015 This essay examines an aspect of British counter-insurgency in Palestine in the 1930s during the Arab revolt there against British colonial rule and Jewish settlement: the pro-British, anti-rebel Palestinian militia “peace bands,” associated with the ...
Hughes, M
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Quand la favela devient ‘comunidade’ : nomination et contrôle social
Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2016 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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Poor youths and ‘pacification’:dilemmas between discourse and practice from the perspective of young people about policing in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas [PDF]
, 2015 This article explores the social representations of youngsters from favelas in Rio de Janeiro on police practices in the context of the implementation of ‘Pacifying Police Units’.
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DO WE LIVE IN AN ERA OF UNPRECEDENTED PEACE?
Obrana a Strategie, 2020 The article sums up the main ideas of Steven Pinker’s book The Better Angels of our Nature, and introduces main currents of its criticism. The currents are categorized; thereafter the strength of Pinker’s opponents’ arguments is evaluated.
Vladimír Bízik, Zdeněk Kříž
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Confins, 2016 This paper focuses on rumors that have been circulating in the favelas of Santa Marta and City of God since November 2008, when police occupied these favelas where were launched later the two first Pacifying Police Units in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In
Palloma Valle Menezes
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Czterdzieści dni Kengiru w Archipelagu GUŁag Aleksandra Sołżenicyna
Politeja, 2013 40th days of Kengir in Archipelago GUL ag. About of identity of rebellious prisoner The present article describe a hard life peoples, who lived in a labour camp in USSR (Kengir).
Kamil Szybalski
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Canada’s cross-Pacific relations: From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific
International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis, 2022 This essay proposes a periodization of Canada’s cross-Pacific relations: from the Asia-Pacific era beginning in the 1980s to the Indo-Pacific era beginning around 2018. In the era of the Asia-Pacific, Canada was relatively disengaged on matters other than economic relations, as Ottawa sought to capitalize on dynamic emerging markets.
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Rio De Janeiro’s Olympic Legacy: Public Security for Whom?
Journal of Human Security, 2016 As Rio de Janeiro struggles to hold itself together through the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, its much lauded public security Games plan, including its highly controversial police pacification program—long promoted as one of the cornerstones of Rio’s ...
Lea Rekow
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Journal of World-Systems Research, 2021 Editors introduction to Journal of World-Systems Research Vol. 27, No.
Andrej Grubačić
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Pacific Lives, Pacific Places: Bursting Boundaries in Pacific History
Pacific Affairs, 2002 "Over the past 50 years Pacific history has become a vast and complex field of multidisciplinary analysis . The conference of the Pacific History Association held in 2000 provided the opportunity to re-think some of these matters"--P. [4] of cover. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-187) and index. ; Mode of access: Internet.
Pacific History Association. Conference (2000 : Australian National University) +2 more
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