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Paramilitarism

2020
From the deserts of Sudan to the jungles of Colombia, and from the streets of Belfast to the mountains of Kurdistan, paramilitaries have appeared in violent conflicts in very different settings. Paramilitaries are generally depicted as irregular armed organizations that carry out acts of violence against civilians on behalf of a state.
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3. Paramilitarism

2020
The culture of paramilitarism in Ireland was undiminished by the world wars. The Ulster Volunteer Force became a founding myth for Northern Ireland with the annual Orange parades being a quasi-formal institution of the state. After the 1916 Rebellion, the Irish Volunteers evolved into the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
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Paramilitares o no. Esa es la cuestión

2020
El objetivo principal de este capítulo es introducir un mayor grado de disciplina conceptual a un debate que está lejos de resolverse, tanto por las dimensiones política y jurídica que lo cruzan, como por la dificultad de capturar disciplinadamente las dinámicas de cambio y continuidad de un fenómeno conectado de muy diversas formas con su antecesor ...
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The Organization of Paramilitarism

2020
How is paramilitary violence organized? Many studies of violent conflicts have demonstrated the central role of paramilitaries in the perpetration of violence against civilians. The organization of the violence is a crucial analytical category to be examined.
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The Poetics of Paramilitarism

Revista Hispánica Moderna, 2011
The modern world, configured on the paradigm of norm and discipline, is now interpreted by means of Benjamin’s notion of exception. Exceptionality is political and manifests itself in the globalized world as militarized forces. Lund focuses on the paramilitary phenomenon to explore how it acts upon contemporary life, invisible and naturalized.
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Paramilitarization of the Economy

Armed Forces & Society, 2012
The Basij, a massive Iranian paramilitary organization, has played a crucial role in the country’s politics, economy, and society at large for the past two decades. While the Basij’s increased formal involvement in the Iranian economy was initially meant to guarantee the welfare of its personnel, the Basij has since extended its influence to every ...
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Paramilitarism in the Balkans

2020
Abstract This book is analysing the origins and manifestations of paramilitary violence in three neighbouring Balkan countries—Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania after the First World War. It shows the role of paramilitarism in internal as well as in external policies in all three above-mentioned states, and it focuses on the main actors ...
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El fenomeno paramilitar en Colombia

2019
El fenómeno paramilitar en Colombia. Guía pedagógica y metodológica (CNMH, 2021) es un recurso didáctico dirigido a estudiantes de educación media (grados 10.º y 11.º), jóvenes de 15 años en adelante y público universitario, así como a docentes que busquen abordar el conflicto armado colombiano en el aula la cartilla se publica bajo licencia Creative ...
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Paramilitarism in Colombia

2017
From a theoretical perspective, Kalivas and Arjona (as cited in Rangel, 2007) have suggested that 'paramilitary forces are armed groups formed outside of a State's formal structure. From an etiological standpoint, it can be argued that paramilitarism is not such a recent phenomenon as is usually assumed.
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