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The literature on security sector actors in transitional societies emerging from war and/or authoritarianism has evolved by critiquing local perspectives recently. While the existing literature has extensively analysed transitional societies in Africa, Middle East and Eastern Eu…

The Northern Irish Troubles lasted for almost thirty years, from 1969 to 1998. Various scholars have studied many aspects of this conflict, but women in loyalist and republican paramilitaries are often overlooked. This thesis seeks to rectify the oversight by using women paramil…

This dissertation is about a faction of the Sociedad Civil Las Abejas who, as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), were housed at the INI IDP camp in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, in 1997-99 after the Acteal massacre on December 22, 1997. This faction is of intere…