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Finding Meaning in the Flag: Contextualizing the Confederate Flag

, 2017
When I first learned about the removal of the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s state building in July of 2015, I was angry like many other people. For me, it wasn’t about the actual removal of the flag, but rather the arguments sparked around it. I
Ortman, Olivia J.
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Citizenship and state-building in East Timor [PDF]

, 2011
One of the most fundamental state prerogatives is to decide who belongs to the political community. When East Timor became independent from Indonesia on May 20, 2002, the Constitution of the new country set the criteria for attributing Timorese ...
Jerónimo, Patrícia
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Dynamics of state-building after war: External-internal relations in Eurasian de facto states [PDF]

, 2017
Post-war state-building is fraught with challenges as “war-makers” pivot to become “state-makers.” Citizen assessments of public good provision and physical security provide a measure of how state-building is perceived internally. State-building may also
Bakke, KM, Linke, AM, O'Loughlin, J, Toal, G   +3 more
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Institutional Logics: On the Constitutive Dimensions of the Modern Nation-State Polities [PDF]

Nation-state; institutionalisation; institutions; state building ...
Ronald L. Jepperson
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"State-building" e diritto consuetudinario in Somalia [PDF]

, 2005
Intento di questo lavoro è quello di delineare le relazioni fra diritto statale, di derivazione religiosa e consuetudinario (Xeer) nel processo di ricostruzione della Somalia.Ulajeedada maqaalkani waxay tahay in uu muujiyo xiriirka ka dhexeeya sharciga ...
Battera, Federico
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Testing Like William the Conqueror: Cultural and Instrumental Uses of Examinations

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
The spread of academic testing for accountability purposes in multiple countries has obscured at least two historical purposes of academic testing: community ritual and management of the social structure. Testing for accountability is very different from
Sherman Dorn
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Gangsters or Gandhians? The Political Sociology of the Maoist Insurgency in India [PDF]

, 2014
This article combines concepts from political sociology with evidence from newspaper reports, insurgent and state documents, and ethnographic studies in order to understand the nature of the Maoist insurgency in India.
Kennedy, J
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Reconstruction from Breakdown in Northeastern India: Building State Capability [PDF]

conflict, reconstruction, state-building, capability, legitimacy, rule of law, governance, institutions, development,
Hassan, M. Sajjad
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SSR and post-conflict Reconstruction: armed wing of state-building?\ud [PDF]

, 2010
This paper directly challenges some of the popular Security Sector Reform (SSR) mythology that has grown around the UK’s involvement in Sierra Leone and the subsequent policy developments associated with SSR.
Jackson, Paul B
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Journalism from the ‘Silicon Savannah’: The Vexed Relationship Between Nairobi’s Newsmakers and its ICT4D Community

Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2015
During the course of a year-long knowledge exchange initiative called the Networked News Lab, a small group of Kenyan journalists and a PhD researcher from the London School of Economics and Political Science sought to identify opportunities for ...
Nicholas Benequista
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