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A Conceptual Model to Identify Intent to Use Chemical-Biological Weapons

Journal of Strategic Security, 2017
This paper describes a conceptual model to identify and interrelate indicators of intent of non-state actors to use chemical or biological weapons. The model expands on earlier efforts to understand intent to use weapons of mass destruction by building ...
Mary Zalesny, Paul Whitney, Amanda White
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A Descriptive Analysis of the Use of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons by Violent Non-State Actors and the Modern-Day Environment of Threat. [PDF]

Prehosp Disaster Med, 2023
Tin D, Cheng L, Shin H, Hata R, Granholm F, Braitberg G, Ciottone G.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
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Hybrid Actor: A New Phenomenon in the Field of Non-State Actors

Czech Journal of International Relations, 2009
This paper argues that the contemporary state of the conceptualization of the non-state actor is no longer sufficient in the context of recent developments of non-state actors, and calls for a reconceptualization.
Martin Janků, Petr Zelinka
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West German Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for the Decolonization of Lusophone Africa

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2019
The violent decolonization of Portugal’s colonial empire in Africa was not fought on the battlefields of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau alone. An important part of the African liberation movements’ struggle was the search for political and material
Nils Schliehe
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Master narratives as “colonial propaganda” and counternarratives as “refusal”: How African Australians reimagine racial dignity in Australia

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper utilizes the concept of “colonial master narratives” to examine how racial propaganda is mobilized in the Australian imaginary to “flatten” the stories of Blac/k people and how African Australians deploy counternarratives to reject these racialized projections.
Kathomi Gatwiri, Samara Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese, Chiara Fiscone, Ashraf Kagee   +2 more
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Religious, militant non-state actors in the Middle East before and after 7 October [PDF]

July 2025Religious, militant non-state actors have played a pivotal role in the events that have unfolded since October 7, 2023. The military wing of Hamas orchestrated the largest and deadliest attack on Israeli territory.
BLANC, Théo
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Aum Shinrikyo’s Nuclear and Chemical Weapons Development Efforts

Journal of Strategic Security, 2016
This article details the terrorist activities of the Japanese cult, Aum Shinrikyo, from the perspective of its complex engineering efforts aimed at producing nuclear and chemical weapons.
Andrea A. Nehorayoff, Benjamin Ash, Daniel S. Smith   +2 more
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Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
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