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Staring Down Street Harassment: Women’S Perspectives Of Street Harassment In Tunisia, Aliya Jessa 2017 SIT Graduate Institute

Staring Down Street Harassment: Women’S Perspectives Of Street Harassment In Tunisia, Aliya Jessa

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Women are the targets of street harassment perpetrated by men every day, particularly in communal spaces such as streets and public transportation. In Tunis, young women must alter their dress and behavior in order to comfortably and navigate public spaces; however, despite these measures, their access to space is still far more limited than men’s access to public space. I interviewed four women in their 20s from the greater Tunis area on their experiences of public street harassment. The women indicated that street harassment is merely one manifestation of a greater gender issue in the country. Although street harassment may …


A Cross-Disciplinary Approach To The Maritime Security Risk Of Piracy And Lessons Learned From Agent-Based Modeling, Joanne Marie Fish 2017 Old Dominion University

A Cross-Disciplinary Approach To The Maritime Security Risk Of Piracy And Lessons Learned From Agent-Based Modeling, Joanne Marie Fish

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation takes a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding pirate activity. Maritime piracy presents a dynamic ever-evolving problem. In today’s globalized world, contemporary maritime piracy presents a transnational threat. It is a complex socio-economic and political problem which the modern world considers to be criminal activity. Like all complex problems it must be deconstructed to fully comprehend it.

All criminal activity, maritime piracy included, has certain elements of supply and demand. For the activity to occur there must be a certain level, or supply, of targets. At the same time, we can posit that there must be a lack of other …


Pembangunan Negara, Hukum Pertanahan Indonesia, Dan Kembalinya Tanah Kasultanan Di Yogyakarta, Carolus Bregas Pranoto 2017 Diari Kota

Pembangunan Negara, Hukum Pertanahan Indonesia, Dan Kembalinya Tanah Kasultanan Di Yogyakarta, Carolus Bregas Pranoto

Jurnal Politik

The Basic Agrarian Law No. 30 Year 1960 stipulates that the Indonesian state (both the central and regional governments) is the sole authority on land that may control and give out land rights to its citizens. However, the implementation of Yogyakarta Special Region Law No. 13 Year 2012 (UUK) did not only give the Sultanate of Yogyakarta a definite status as a legal entity, but also its claims on and authority over its owned land, the Sultanaat Grond (SG). A formal law approach views such arrangement as a result of the pluralism of law and suggests the unification of law …


Ddasaccident814, HD-AID 2017 Humanitarian DeminingAccident and Incident Database

Ddasaccident814, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

The accident occurred in one of the remote Mine Field (MF) tasks (HZTJ-335-MM10) located in TAB region of Tajikistan, Shamsiddin Shohin district: 30 km from nearest hospital, 60 min of driving by narrow and bad condition restricted border zone road, and was caused due to hand excavation tool (demining trowel) penetration into the liquid explosive container of an AP blast mine type PFM-1. Penetration, fortunately, did not provoke any detonation, but resulted in rupturing the plastic mine casing and spraying of the liquid explosive charge contents into the eyes, mouth and facial area of the deminer operating the demining tool.


Toward A Non-Nuclear World: The Npt Regime – Nuclear Disarmament And The Challenge Of A Wmdfz In The Middle East, Sameh Aboul-Enein 2017 University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Toward A Non-Nuclear World: The Npt Regime – Nuclear Disarmament And The Challenge Of A Wmdfz In The Middle East, Sameh Aboul-Enein

International Journal of Nuclear Security

This paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of various approaches for nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation with the intention of determining how best to promote a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East (MEWMDFZ). Using a qualitative approach, I investigate historical cases of agreements regarding nonproliferation zones and examine the causes for deadlock through both a perusal of historic successes and failures and a review of relevant literature. Particular focus is given to the failure of the NPT Review Conference of 2015. Furthermore, I discuss the importance of role-play simulations and their indications of the need for …


Ddasaccident826, HD-AID 2017 Humanitarian DeminingAccident and Incident Database

Ddasaccident826, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

On the 6th of September 2017at [International demining organisation] task CBU-575 FO, an uncontrolled detonation of an M77 sub-munitions occurred while [International demining organisation] BAC 2 searcher [the Victim] was working in his lane at 07:33 am, 5 minutes before taking his first break, and led to an injury.

The injuries sustained by [the Victim] resulted in severe wounds and fractures in his hands and legs, fragmentations in the chest and head and injuries to the eyes.

Based on all available evidences, the BOI team concludes that the accident occurred with the searcher while he was cutting vegetation in his …


From The Editor, Antulio J. Echevarria 2017 SSI

From The Editor, Antulio J. Echevarria

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Limits Of Negative Peace, Faces Of Positive Peace, Patricia M. Shields 2017 US Army War College

Limits Of Negative Peace, Faces Of Positive Peace, Patricia M. Shields

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Insurgent Defectors In Counterinsurgencies, Jaqueline L. Hazelton 2017 US Army War College

Insurgent Defectors In Counterinsurgencies, Jaqueline L. Hazelton

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Casualties Of Their Own Success: The 2011 Urination Incident In Afghanistan, Paolo G. Tripodi, David M. Todd 2017 US Army War College

Casualties Of Their Own Success: The 2011 Urination Incident In Afghanistan, Paolo G. Tripodi, David M. Todd

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews, USAWC Press 2017 US Army War College

Book Reviews, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Abandoning Counterinsurgency: Reviving Antiterrorism Strategy, Steven Metz 2017 SSI

Abandoning Counterinsurgency: Reviving Antiterrorism Strategy, Steven Metz

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Rethinking Nato Policy On The Protection Of Civilians, Sten Rynning 2017 US Army War College

Rethinking Nato Policy On The Protection Of Civilians, Sten Rynning

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Military Force And Mass Migration In Europe, Matthew N. Metzel, John M. Lorenzen 2017 US Army War College

Military Force And Mass Migration In Europe, Matthew N. Metzel, John M. Lorenzen

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Third-Force Influences: Hollywood's War Films, John Chapin, Marissa Mendoza-Burcham, Mari Pierce 2017 US Army War College

Third-Force Influences: Hollywood's War Films, John Chapin, Marissa Mendoza-Burcham, Mari Pierce

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


The Seventh Meeting Of States Parties To The Convention On Cluster Munitions (2017), CCM 2017 Convention on Cluster Munitions

The Seventh Meeting Of States Parties To The Convention On Cluster Munitions (2017), Ccm

Global CWD Repository

The Seventh Meeting of States Parties (7MSP) to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) took place from 4 to 6 September 2017 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

The 7MSP, presided by Germany, was the second formal meeting of the Convention after the adoption of the Dubrovnik Action Plan, a five-year action (2015-2020) plan that provides a roadmap for States Parties to implement and universalize the Convention. 393 participants from States, international and non-governmental organizations took part in the three-day Meeting to take stock of the implementation of the CCM’s steering action plan.


Expanding Brigade Combat Teams: Is The Training Base Adequate?, Esli T. Pitts 2017 US Army War College

Expanding Brigade Combat Teams: Is The Training Base Adequate?, Esli T. Pitts

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Rapid Expansion And The Army's Matériel: Is There Enough?, Robb C. Mitchell 2017 US Army War College

Rapid Expansion And The Army's Matériel: Is There Enough?, Robb C. Mitchell

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


The New American Slavery: Capitalism And The Ghettoization Of American Prisons As A Profitable Corporate Business, David A. Liburd 2017 CUNY Graduate Center

The New American Slavery: Capitalism And The Ghettoization Of American Prisons As A Profitable Corporate Business, David A. Liburd

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The labor of enslaved Africans and Black Americans played a large part in the history of colonial America, with the American plantation being the epicenter for all that was to be produced. While the two have never been completely tied together, capitalism and modern day slavery have been linked with one another. Some analysis sees slavery as a remote form of capitalism, a substitute, to an antiquated form of labor in the modern world.

Slave plantations adopted a new concentration in size and management, referred to by W.E. DuBois as a change "from a family institution to an industrial system."1 …


Trumping Norms: Whither The International Liberal Order?, Maureen Jones 2017 CUNY Graduate Center

Trumping Norms: Whither The International Liberal Order?, Maureen Jones

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This paper’s main objective is to develop potential theories on the future of American foreign policy within the Trump Administration. The paper will begin by evaluating the norm of statehood and will discuss the contributions of John Meyer to the statehood discourse. Through analysis of Meyer’s work, this paper will develop a standardized structure of statehood within the global order. Furthermore, the paper will analyze the Westphalian international order and discuss the viability of this system leading up to 2017. The Westphalian international system has been the primary system for which nation-states aim to gain acceptance and its norms provide …


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