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American Government (Lecture Slides), Julie Lester, Christopher Lawrence
American Government (Lecture Slides), Julie Lester, Christopher Lawrence
Political Science Ancillary Materials
Revision 2: 10/12/2016
This set of lecture slides for American Government in a .zip compressed file was created under a Round One ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Topics include the constitution, political participation, the media, and civil liberties.
Economic Survival And Borderland Rebellion: The Case Of The Allied Demoocratic Forces On The Uganda-Congo Border, Lindsay Scorgie-Porter
Economic Survival And Borderland Rebellion: The Case Of The Allied Demoocratic Forces On The Uganda-Congo Border, Lindsay Scorgie-Porter
Faculty Publications
One of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s oldest, most organized, and traditionally best-trained—but, arguably, least known—rebel groups is the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). Its resiliency and particularly its economic survival skills have largely been understood through the prism of Islamic extremism. Yet this narrative has proven to have serious inaccuracies and flaws. Explanations focused on terrorism, for example, do not take into consideration the ADF’s pivotal business ventures, such as cross-border trade, agriculture, and the taxing of timber forests. They not only ignore these activities but are unable to explain how the ADF was able to practice, and become successful …