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Role of Non State Actors (Political Movements, Militias, Civil Society) in Shaping Regional Security in Africa [PDF]

, 2016
This article unravels the role of non-state actors in regional security in the great lakes region of Africa The analysis identifies what motivates non-state actors into action particularly the desire to access scarce resources the geopolitical ...
Mushemeza Elijah Dickens
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Rural and Remote Communities as Non-State Actors [PDF]

, 2023
While entities as different as armed groups, multinational corporations, political parties, megacities, labour unions, terrorist organisations, or indigenous peoples are mentioned as non-state actors in the relevant literature, rural communities are ...
Price, David, Radavoi, Ciprian Nicolae
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Water Weaponisation: The Syrian Case

e-cadernos ces
The start of the twenty-first century has seen the scarcity of water resources being increasingly framed as a weaponised instrument of war and a military objective by multiple actors.
Margarida Gama
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Environment-Conflict Nexus in the Sahel Region: Lake Chad as a Case in Point

Nuovi autoritarismi e democrazie: diritto, istituzioni, società, 2022
Lake Chad in the Sahel region has emerged as the epicenter of the widening conflict that is, in part, attributed to climate change-induced factors along with natural resource instability and intra-state pressures exacerbated by exploitative past ...
Arushi Singh
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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, Kevin T. Greene, Brian J. Phillips   +2 more
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State versus Violent Non-State Actors

, 2015
Tato diplomová práce se věnuje problematice nestátních aktérů využívajících násilí a jejich vztahem mezi nimi a státem. Na nestátního aktéra je nahlíženo nejprve z pohledu teorií mezinárodních vztahů.
Eisnerová, Tereza
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Territorially Anchored Islamist Non-State Actor Using Violence, and the Question of Regulation of System Anarchy

Vojenské rozhledy, 2015
Islamist territorially anchored violent non-state actors (ITAVNSAs) seeking to change the status quo of the current international system constitute one of the greatest challenges the international order based on mutual respect of equal sovereign states ...
Zdeněk Ludvík
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Transnational Terrorism and International Relations

Politikon, 2016
This paper reproduces a Postcolonial critique of mainstream International Relations-theory by emphasising the ontological and epistemological fallacies, as well as historical omissions that guard it’s Eurocentric and racist ontology.
Johannes Korak
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Competition, Patronage and Fragmentation: The Limits of Bottom-Up Approaches to Security Governance in Ituri

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, Koen Vlassenroot, Karen Büscher   +2 more
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Understanding the manifestation of the conflict between traditional leaders and ward committees, A case of Greater Giyani Municipality, Limpopo Province, South Africa

The Journal of Intelligence, Conflict and Warfare, 2023
In South African municipalities, there has been a coexistence between elected and traditional leaders for decades. However, this coexistence has often been marked by numerous conflicts. These conflicts take different forms and dimensions; while priority
Shadreck Muchaku, Grey Magaiza, Joseph Francis, Mpho Tshitangoni   +3 more
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