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Armed conflict and the increasing use of child soldiers in the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan: Implications for regional security
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Why Peace Fails: The causes and prevention of civil war recurrence
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Child and adolescent injury burden in the eastern mediterranean region: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease 1990-2017
Samar Al-Hajj,Charbel El Bcheraoui,Farah Daoud,Ibrahim A Khalil,Maziar Moradi-Lakeh,Laith J. Abu-Raddad,Randa R. Hamadeh,Ali H. Mokdad +7 more
TL;DR: Almost 19% of global child injury related deaths occur in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, and concerted efforts should be integrated to inform policies and adopt injury preventive strategies to reduce injury burden and promote child and adolescent health and well-being in EMR countries.
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A State of Rebellion: The Reterritorialization of Ottoman Sovereignty in Greater Syria
TL;DR: In this article, the Sayfa family's activity as regional governors indicate how difficult it was for the Ottoman establishment to police the boundaries between rebel and official, and the Sayfas moved in and out of favor with the Ottoman court, relied on their own uneven alliances to extend power, and acted sometimes in concert with, and sometimes in direct opposition to, imperial commands.
Africanizing rebel insurgency in a post-colonial state and ramifications for african regional integration: insight(s) from the democratic republic of congo (drc)
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of political instability and, rebel insurgency, in particular, have on Africa's regional integration frameworks by drawing insights from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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War: Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a broad variety of interdisciplinary and social scientific perspectives on the causes, processes, cultural representations, and social consequences of the armed conflicts between and within nations and other politically organized communities.
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War exposure, daily stressors, and mental health in conflict and post-conflict settings: Bridging the divide between trauma-focused and psychosocial frameworks
TL;DR: An integrative, sequenced approach to intervention is proposed in which daily stressors are first addressed, and specialized interventions are then provided for individuals whose distress does not abate with the repair of the social ecology.
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Child Soldiers, International Humanitarian Law, and the Globalization of Childhood
TL;DR: A review of the development of the laws and treaties regulating the use of child soldiers and the political, social, and cultural context in which these developments are grounded can be found in this paper.
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Uganda and the lord's resistance army: the new order no one ordered
TL;DR: For almost 18 years, the so-called Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has waged war on the Ugandan government and its own people, the Acholi as discussed by the authors, and the robustness of the conflict indicates that the forces working against peace outstrip those working for it.
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Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of children in the recruitment and use of children, from Proscription to Prevention, and their role in reinvigorating the International Legal Imagination.
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