Pro-government militias and civil war termination

Estancona, Chelsea; Reid, L. Jan

doi:10.1177/07388942211048419

“…They are conducted in the air, on water and on land in the form of strikes, missions, engagements, battles and systematic combat operations. In fact, modern warfare is characterised by certain aspects, namely the participation of large group forces, a high level of dynamism, rapidity and manoeuvrability, the extensive use of all kinds of weapons and equipment, the destruction of targets in large spatial dimensions, abrupt changes in the situation, and the high expenditure of human and material resources (Estancona & Reid, 2022).…”

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The relevance of this study is determined by the current instability of the global political climate in the world and the outbreak of a number of military conflicts, which necessitates the study of the mechanisms of activity of structures that protect the interests of the population and the state. Thus, the purpose of the paper is to analyse the algorithm for the activities of civil defence authorities, particularly in wartime conditions. Among the methods used are the methods of logical analysis, deduction, synthesis, induction, functional analysis, analogy. This study provides a detailed analysis of the importance and key role played by civil protection agencies in addressing the challenges of protecting, ensuring security and developing society. The importance of their function lies in the effective implementation of strategies aimed at protecting the population and the state in times of threat and danger. The analysis in this paper takes into account the various components necessary for the successful management of various types of warfare. This includes the study of effective strategies for interaction and coordination between civil protection authorities and military command and control. Particular attention is paid to the key factors that determine the effectiveness of the organisation of interaction between military authorities and protection commissioners. Similarly, significant was the analysis of the demand for the resolution of qualitative foresight implementation tasks. Accordingly, an algorithm that will provide a more detailed and relevant examination of the wartime operational algorithm of the governing bodies has been developed. The practical value of the obtained results is that it will increase the appropriate level of combat alertness, the guarantor of the protection of the national interests of the state and its population, its territorial integrity and will generally raise the level of effectiveness of the relevant bodies considered

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“…This focus stands to reason as the release of the Pro-Government Militias Database (PGMD) in 2013 represented the first systematic collection of information regarding these groups and their activity. The database has allowed researchers to engage in quantitative examinations of their formation (Ahram, 2016;Carey, Colaresi, and Mitchell, 2016;DiBlasi, 2020;Carey, Colaresi, and Mitchell, 2015;Akins, 2021), containment (Bolte, 2021), termination (Aliyev, 2019b), and impact on outcomes such as conflict termination (Aliyev, 2019a;Steinert, Steinert, and Carey, 2019;Estancona and Reid, 2021), duration (Aliyev, 2020), human rights and repression (Mitchell, Carey, and Butler, 2014;Carey and González, 2020), and levels of violence (Stanton, 2015;Cohen and Nordås, 2015;Abbs, Clayton, and Thomson, 2019;Koren, 2017) for the first time.…”

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What’s in a name? Militias and the need for further systematic research

Nelson¹

2023

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Establishing a collective understanding of an essentially contested concept can be extremely challenging. Researchers talk past one another and can give contradictory advice to policy makers. This has been the case for militias. In this article, I provide a clear definition of a militia and highlight the need for such a definition with a review of journal articles contained within Web of Science. I lay out the implications of an ambiguous conception of militia with a replication of a recent research piece. And I argue that the generation of a full typology of militias is now of the utmost importance for future work on these groups.

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Operation procedures of civil defence authorities in time of war

Akimbayev,

Akhmetov,

Abdykalykov

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The relevance of this study is determined by the current instability of the global political climate in the world and the outbreak of a number of military conflicts, which necessitates the study of the mechanisms of activity of structures that protect the interests of the population and the state. Thus, the purpose of the paper is to analyse the algorithm for the activities of civil defence authorities, particularly in wartime conditions. Among the methods used are the methods of logical analysis, deduction, synthesis, induction, functional analysis, analogy. This study provides a detailed analysis of the importance and key role played by civil protection agencies in addressing the challenges of protecting, ensuring security and developing society. The importance of their function lies in the effective implementation of strategies aimed at protecting the population and the state in times of threat and danger. The analysis in this paper takes into account the various components necessary for the successful management of various types of warfare. This includes the study of effective strategies for interaction and coordination between civil protection authorities and military command and control. Particular attention is paid to the key factors that determine the effectiveness of the organisation of interaction between military authorities and protection commissioners. Similarly, significant was the analysis of the demand for the resolution of qualitative foresight implementation tasks. Accordingly, an algorithm that will provide a more detailed and relevant examination of the wartime operational algorithm of the governing bodies has been developed. The practical value of the obtained results is that it will increase the appropriate level of combat alertness, the guarantor of the protection of the national interests of the state and its population, its territorial integrity and will generally raise the level of effectiveness of the relevant bodies considered

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Pro-government militias and civil war termination

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