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Competition, Patronage and Fragmentation: The Limits of Bottom-Up Approaches to Security Governance in Ituri [PDF]
Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2018 People are affected by different kinds of insecurity in the Ituri Province in the northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This article investigates donor-driven attempts to improve security governance there.
Kasper Hoffmann +2 more
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What Can Faith-Based Forms of Violent Conflict Prevention Teach Us About Liberal Peace? [PDF]
, 2020 Faith-based actors are often recognised as contributors to both conflict and peace. However, their work to prevent violent conflict, rather than bring an end to or recover from it, is largely unexplored.
Payne, Laura
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Introducing ViNSAR: Dyadic Data on Violent Non-State Actor Rivalry
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2023 A growing line of research examines causes and consequences of militant group competition. However, empirical work on these topics has limitations. Most quantitative research uses relatively rough proxies for competition, such as counts of groups in a country.
Justin Conrad +2 more
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Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 2021 This paper aims to expand the concept of hybrid governance and analyses the case of Rio Janeiro, where criminal control coexists with the state. This study addresses the following research question: is Rio de Janeiro an important case for expanding the ...
Marília Carolina B. Souza Pimenta +2 more
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Deterring Violent Non-state Actors [PDF]
, 2020 AbstractThe chapter examines the relevance and applicability of deterrence to violent non-state actors (VNSAs). VNSAs have become important players in the international system. Traditional deterrence theory and practice has limited utility against VNSAs due to their different characteristics to those of states that makes them less susceptive to ...
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Frontiers in Political Science, 2021 Over the past couple of decades, “new” state actors, such as Brazil, China, Russia, India, Turkey, and countries of the Arab Gulf, have been playing an increasingly prominent role in assistance provision to conflict-affected states.
Agnieszka Paczyńska
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Gazi Akademik Bakış, 2021 States give direct, indirect, formal, and informal aid to violent non-state actors. Historical foreign aid examples suggest that foreign aid to violent non-state actors are free from the development degree and ideology of the state and the region in ...
Sinan DEMİRDÜZEN +1 more
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Violence and Violence Research in Africa South of the Sahara
International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2011 This review presents the major lines of investigation regarding violence in Africa since the Cold War. After a historical introduction to the development of violent phenomena and their political contexts, diverse issues such as civil war, democratization,
Alex Veit +2 more
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Major flaws in conflict prevention policies towards Africa : the conceptual deficits of international actors’ approaches and how to overcome them [PDF]
, 2005 Current thinking on African conflicts suffers from misinterpretations oversimplification, lack of focus, lack of conceptual clarity, state-centrism and lack of vision).
Abdel-Fatau Musah +91 more
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The evolution of European perception of the term 'hybrid warfare' [PDF]
Војно дело, 2018 The emergence and use of the term 'hybrid warfare' is related to the efforts of the US military analysts to explain the changes in the physiognomy of war, as well as the practical problems of the US Armed Forces on the ground as a result of these changes.
Vračar Milinko S., Ćurčić Milica T.
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