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Red-Teaming NLW: A Top Ten List of Criticisms About Non-Lethal Weapons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Critics of non-lethal weapons (NL W) have asserted numerous complaints about the concepts, the Department of Defense research and development efforts, and the pace of innovation in the field.
Koplow, David A
core   +2 more sources

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

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the implementation of the budget and defence planning in the Ministry Defence of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the context of weapons and military equipment

open access: yesSocial Development & Security, 2019
The article discusses the main approaches to the organization of budgetary and defense planning in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the context of the development of weapons and military equipment.
Павло Пархоменко   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Inference about Interference: A Surprising Application of Existing International Law to Inhibit Anti-Satellite Weapons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article presents a thesis that most readers will find surprising, in an effort to develop a novel, simultaneous solution to three urgent, complex problems related to outer space.
Koplow, David A
core   +2 more sources

The Impact of Job Strain on Occupational Access to Firearms and Firearm‐Related Suicide Among US Workers

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Firearm‐related suicide rates are notably high among workers such as police officers and farmers. One risk factor is occupational access to firearms, but other occupational characteristics, such as job strain, are less understood.
Victor A. Soupene   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Concept, Subject, Objectives, and Objects of Forensic Examination of Melee and Throwing Weapons

open access: yesТеория и практика судебной экспертизы, 2017
The paper discusses the basic categories of concept, subject, objectives, and objects specific to the forensic examination of melee and throwing weapons.
A. V. Kokin
doaj   +1 more source

‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Perception is Everything: Repairing the Image of American Drone Warfare [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This thesis will trace the United States’ development of unmanned warfare from its initial use in the World Wars through the Cold War to its final maturation in the War on Terror.
Tubbs, Luke
core   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Advances in the Synthesis of High Explosive Materials

open access: yesCrystals, 2015
This review discusses the recent advances in the syntheses of high explosive energetic materials. Syntheses of some relevant modern primary explosives and secondary high explosives, and the sensitivities and properties of these molecules are provided. In
Jesse J. Sabatini, Karl D. Oyler
doaj   +1 more source

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