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Finding the Frontline in Civil Conflict: Looting and Recruiting in African Refugee Camps (open access)

Finding the Frontline in Civil Conflict: Looting and Recruiting in African Refugee Camps

This paper explores the relationship between the locations of conflict zones and refugee camps in African nations.
Date: 2014
Creator: Bolte, Brandon L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Latino Attitudes Toward Abortion and Marriage Equality: Examining the Influence of Religiosity, Acculturation, and Non-Response (open access)

Latino Attitudes Toward Abortion and Marriage Equality: Examining the Influence of Religiosity, Acculturation, and Non-Response

This article seeks to extend literature on Latinos' policy preferences by examining the influence of multiple dimensions of acculturation and religiosity on two contemporary moral policy issues: abortion and same-sex marriage.
Date: 2014
Creator: Branton, Regina; Franco, Ana B.; Wenzel, Jim & Wrinkle, Robert D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expanding Powers, Gender Dynamics and Militarized Interstate Disputes: The Impact of National Material Capability and Gender on Onset and Escalation (open access)

Expanding Powers, Gender Dynamics and Militarized Interstate Disputes: The Impact of National Material Capability and Gender on Onset and Escalation

Paper explores the relationship between national capabilities and the likelihood of conflict, and in particular the impact of gender on this relationship.
Date: 2014
Creator: Ferris, Rachel Elizabeth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engendering Violence: The Acceptability of Domestic Violence as a Determinant of Intrastate Conflict (open access)

Engendering Violence: The Acceptability of Domestic Violence as a Determinant of Intrastate Conflict

Paper analyzes the influence of attitudes regarding domestic violence upon the likelihood of civil conflict.
Date: 2014
Creator: Leban, Lucy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does the Truth Really Set You Free? Examining the Effect of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions on Social and Political Trust (open access)

Does the Truth Really Set You Free? Examining the Effect of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions on Social and Political Trust

Paper investigates the effect that truth and reconciliation commissions (TRCs) have on social and political trust in Africa, utilizing the Afrobarometer and World Values Survey.
Date: 2014
Creator: Mendez, Nicole
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
All Terrorism is Local? A Quantitative Analysis of Al Qaeda Affiliation and Rebel Group Behavior (open access)

All Terrorism is Local? A Quantitative Analysis of Al Qaeda Affiliation and Rebel Group Behavior

Paper examines the effects of affiliation, focusing on Al Qaeda, on the behavior of rebel groups.
Date: 2014
Creator: Robbins, Arianna
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Repressed by the Scales of Justice: The Ramifications of the International Criminal Court (open access)

Repressed by the Scales of Justice: The Ramifications of the International Criminal Court

Paper argues that the creation of the International Criminal Court will increase repression of citizens in participating countries.
Date: 2014
Creator: Schoner, Rachel J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stronger than Yesterday: The Effect of Ethnic Conflict on Ethnic Identity (open access)

Stronger than Yesterday: The Effect of Ethnic Conflict on Ethnic Identity

Paper explores the relationship between ethnic conflict and ethnic identity using quantitative methods.
Date: 2014
Creator: Shymonyak, Andriy V.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
All’s Well That Ends Better: Third-Party Intervention as a Challenge to Sovereignty (open access)

All’s Well That Ends Better: Third-Party Intervention as a Challenge to Sovereignty

Paper investigates the role third party intervention has played in undermining or bolstering the stability of a state’s leadership in a post-conflict setting via capacity building and legitimacy.
Date: 2014
Creator: VanMeter, Emily
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wither the Whip, Strengthen the Sword: Colonial Legacy and Geno-/Politicide in the Post-Colonial World, 1945-2012 (open access)

Wither the Whip, Strengthen the Sword: Colonial Legacy and Geno-/Politicide in the Post-Colonial World, 1945-2012

Undergraduate thesis examining the causes of geno-/politicides and the potential correlation between colonial legacy and the increased likelihood of seeing geno-/politicide across all newly independent states post-WWII from 1945-2012. This study reviews colonialism through an anthropological and sociological lens and applies it to state-structure's impact on political violence.
Date: May 8, 2014
Creator: Wood, Colin
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
When Will People Learn? Democracy Just Doesn’t Work (open access)

When Will People Learn? Democracy Just Doesn’t Work

Paper explores questions about the efficacy of democracy in America.
Date: 2014
Creator: Wood, Justin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library