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The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Maidan massacre in Ukraine. It uses a theoretical framework of rational choice, moral hazard, state- repression backfire, and Weberian ideas about rational action to explore the massacre. The book draws on publicly available videos, photos and audio recordings of the massacre in English, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and other langu…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-67121-0
- Collation
- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- Rethinking Political Violence
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Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean
This book reveals how violent pasts were constructed by ancient Mediterranean societies, the ideologies they served, and the socio-political processes and institutions they facilitated. Combining case studies from Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, Israel/Judah, and Rome, it moves beyond essentialist dichotomies such as “victors” and “vanquished” to offer a new paradigm for studying representatio…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-90-04-68318-1
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- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume: 135
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The Codes of the Street in Risky Neighborhoods = A Cross-Cultural Comparison …
This book presents a comparative look at the norms and attitudes related to youth violence. It aims to present a perspective outside of the typical Western context, through case studies comparing a developed / Western democracy (Germany), a country with a history of institutionalized violence (South Africa), and an emerging democracy that has experienced heavy terrorism (Pakistan). Building on …
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030162870
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- XII, 192 ill; lamp
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- -
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Lives in Peace Research = The Oslo Stories
This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their p…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811647178
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- XX, 508 ill; lamp
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- 3
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- -
The Prevent Duty in Education = Impact, Enactment and Implications
This open access book explores the enactment, impact and implications of the Prevent Duty across a range of educational contexts. In July 2015 the UK became the first country to place a specific legal requirement on those working in education to contribute to efforts to ‘prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’. Drawing on extensive research with staff, children and young people, the…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030455590
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- X, 176 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- -
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Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean
This book reveals how violent pasts were constructed by ancient Mediterranean societies, the ideologies they served, and the socio-political processes and institutions they facilitated. Combining case studies from Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, Israel/Judah, and Rome, it moves beyond essentialist dichotomies such as “victors” and “vanquished” to offer a new paradigm for studying representatio…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-90-04-68317-4
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- -
- Series Title
- Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume: 135
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- -
Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean
This book reveals how violent pasts were constructed by ancient Mediterranean societies, the ideologies they served, and the socio-political processes and institutions they facilitated. Combining case studies from Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, Israel/Judah, and Rome, it moves beyond essentialist dichotomies such as “victors” and “vanquished” to offer a new paradigm for studying representatio…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-90-04-68317-4
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- -
- Series Title
- Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume: 135
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Violence in the Balkans : First findings from the Balkan Homicide Study
This is the first volume to offer an in-depth look at (lethal) violence in the Balkans. The Balkans Homicide Study analyses 3,000 (attempted) homicide cases from Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania and Slovenia. Shedding light on a region long neglected in terms of empirical violence research, the study at hand asks: - What types of homicides occur in the Balkans? - Who are the p…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-74494-6
- Collation
- XIII, 113
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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- -
Counter-Terrorism, Ethics and Technology: Emerging Challenges at the Frontier…
This open access book brings together a range of contributions that seek to explore the ethical issues arising from the overlap between counter-terrorism, ethics, and technologies. Terrorism and our responses pose some of the most significant ethical challenges to states and people. At the same time, we are becoming increasingly aware of the ethical implications of new and emerging technologies…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030902216
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- XVI, 221
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- -
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Homonegativity and Religiously Motivated Political Extremism : A Study Based …
This open access book describes the world’s increasingly multicultural societies face the problem that more and more diverse lifestyles (LGBTQIA+ communities) are not universally accepted, and that today, in addition to xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism, there is substantial homonegativity. This book explores this issue, reviews the empirical literature on the subject and provides new empi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-66202-7
- Collation
- XXIII, 114
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
- Call Number
- 320 TAU h
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