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Unravelling Africa’s misgovernment: How state failures fuel the emergence of violent non-state actors: Selected case studies

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2023
This paper explores the multifaceted challenges post-colonial African states face in addressing underdevelopment and ethnoreligious intolerance, resulting in an unstable socio-economic and political environment.
Victor H Mlambo
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Hamas and the Threat of Exclusive Territorial Control by Violent Non-State Actors

open access: yesStudies in Conflict & Terrorism
Until the war that followed the attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, Hamas held factual dominion over both a specific territory and a defined population, resembling a traditional sovereign. Yet, in its military operations and in relation to its territorial control, Hamas does not abide by international rules or norms.
Wolf, Dana   +1 more
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Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Violent Non-State Actors (VNSAs)

open access: yes, 2016
Abstract This chapter examines both non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and violent non-state actors (VNSAs). NGOs come in many shapes and sizes. Many have a charitable base and some will have humanitarian or human rights objectives; others focus on sustainable development and aid. Often their concern will be a single issue.
Roberts Ivor
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Acteurs violents et gestion de la crise pandémique au Brésil et au Mexique. Ruptures ou continuités dans le contrôle social ?

open access: yesCahiers des Amériques Latines, 2022
This work examines the management of the pandemic through the local actions of violent state and non-state actors: the armed forces, the police and criminal groups.
Annabelle Dias Félix   +2 more
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Liquid Territoriality and Al-Shabaab

open access: yesCzech Journal of International Relations, 2020
The text presents a contribution to the study of territoriality of violent non-state actors in areas of limited internal state power projection. It presents the strategy of liquid territoriality as a survival strategy of the territorial violent non ...
Bohumil Doboš
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Negotiating Lives

open access: yesRevista Científica General José María Córdova, 2022
How do criminal agendas affect a peace process with violent non-state actors? This article endeavors to resolve this question by presenting a qualitative analysis of the gang truce in El Salvador during the government of Mauricio Funes, using the Peace ...
Esteban Arratia-Sandoval
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Framing typologies of relations between State and violent non-state actor. From Systemic anarchy to systematic regulation [PDF]

open access: yesRevista UNISCI, 2023
This article deals with the issue of violent non-state actors (VNSA). First, it shows that states have developed regulatory mechanisms to mitigate anarchy in the international system and create a less conflictual international order.
Zdeněk Ludvík
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Hybrid governance as a dynamic hub for violent non-state actors: examining the case of Rio de Janeiro

open access: yesRevista 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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