Houses, tranquility and progress in an área de milícia by Marcella de Araujo Silva

“…This paper examines how power relations are organized and institutionalized in áreas de milícia (militia- controlled areas) in the city of Rio de Janeiro. …”
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CIUDADANÍA Y MILICIA EN EL REPUBLICANISMO FLORENTINO by Jesús Luis Castillo Vegas

“…The creation of a citizen militia is a characteristic pretension of the Renaissance republicanism. …”
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Modern communication system on the example of police activities in Poland by Angelika Wilk, Anna Woźnialis

“…Positive changes were initiated after 1990, when the police, as an institution that replaced the Citizens’ Militia, began to restore social trust.…”
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When is a caliph not a caliph? by Michael Hedges, Paul

“…While he heads an armed militia, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi’s actions are opposed to how a Caliph should behave. …”
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“Imitating Bandits”: The Mimesis of Criminal Groups in Soviet Lithuania (1945–1957) by Darius Indrišionis

“…It may also be explained in terms of simpler imitation: for these criminals, it was more difficult to imitate Lithuanian partisans than Soviet militia. The real widespread effect of this phenomenon cannot be easily revealed. …”
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Czytanie (o) PRL-u. Z Ryszardem Ćwirlejem rozmawiają Justyna Tuszyńska i Dariusz Brzostek by Ryszard Ćwirlej, Dariusz Brzostek, Justyna Tuszyńska

“…An author of numerous detective novels and an inventor of Polish “neo-militia literature”, a literary genre depicting the everyday life of the militiamen in the PRL (The Polish People’s Republic). …”
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THE NATIONAL GUARD AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CENTRAL AND LOCAL POWERS IN THE PROVINCE OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL IN THE 19TH CENTURY by André Fertig

“…For that, we discuss the main functions carried out by the militia in the Province, highlighting three spheres of activity: as police force in defense of internal order, such as military force in the wars in which the Empire of Brazil has been involved in the Region of Prata and, finally, as symbolic instrument at the service of the imperial State in nation-building.…”
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Indonesian presidential election : Jaafar Umar Thalibs 'Jihad against pluralism' by Farish A. Noor

“…The recent re-emergence of a leader of the Laskar Jihad militia raises the question of how and why such conservative voices have made an appearance at this stage.…”
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La desarticulación social del cuerpo. Polisemia de la violación y subjetividad resistente en el genocidio ruandés by Michela Fusaschi

“… During the Rwandan genocide of 1994 up to half a million women and children, predominantly Tutsi, suffered large-scale rape and other types of sexual violence because of both their ethnicity and their gender. The Interahamwe militia, military and political leaders [sometimes women] directed or encouraged sexual assault to promote the annihilation of the Tutsi as a group. …”
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Gobiernos y territorialidades: Coronda, de caserío a curato (Santa Fe, Gobernación y Obispado de Buenos Aires, 1660-1749) by Darío G. Barriera, Miriam S. Moriconi

“…This work analyses the concurrence of jurisdictional practices and governance between different devices (the government, the council, the bishopric) and different agents (governors, judges, neighbours, militia, their leaders, clergy or religious people, etc.) of the Hispanic Monarchy in the process of colonial occupation of Coronda. …”
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La desarticulación social del cuerpo. Polisemia de la violación y subjetividad resistente en el genocidio ruandés by Michela Fusaschi

“… During the Rwandan genocide of 1994 up to half a million women and children, predominantly Tutsi, suffered large-scale rape and other types of sexual violence because of both their ethnicity and their gender. The Interahamwe militia, military and political leaders [sometimes women] directed or encouraged sexual assault to promote the annihilation of the Tutsi as a group. …”
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OS COMPANHEIROS DE DOM OBÁ: OS ZUAVOS BAIANOS E OUTRAS COMPANHIAS NEGRAS NA GUERRA DO PARAGUAI by Hendrik Kraay

“…These racially-segregated companies shared many overall similarities to other military units but they also drew on the legacy of the colonial black militia and their members¿ patriotic service in the struggle for independence in Bahia. …”
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Review of the book of Albert F. Izmaylov “Where “Trojan Horse” and “Fifth Column” are Staggering Around...” Essays on the fight against pro-fascist groups in the Battle of Leningra... by A. V. Stepanov

“…Izmailov, a resident of blockade Leningrad, reveals nameless facts of the Battle of Leningrad in 1941-1944, organization of activities of the Red Army, NKVD bodies, guerrilla movement, militia, labor collectives, party, Soviet, Komsomol organizations in the fight against pro-fascist groups. …”
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INDIGENOUS MILITARIZATION IN THE CAPITANIA OF PERNAMBUCO IN THE CENTURY XVII: SHRIMP, THE HISTORY OF A TITLE. by Juliana Elias

“…Thus, the solution was to create a local militia, led by Camarão, who, little by little, gained the trust of Portugal, giving his troops a prominence until then denied to a peripheral social group. …”
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The curious case of Wang Yuandongyi: why do some want to fight with anti-ISIS groups? by Jayakumar, Shashi

“…The arrest in March 2016 of a Singapore citizen, Wang Yuandongyi, for attempting to travel to Syria to fight with a Kurdish militia against ISIS raises questions about the psychological processes of individuals attempting to join anti-ISIS groups.Should these individuals be treated in the same manner as those attempting to fight for ISIS?…”
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Parlamentarische Oberaufsicht als gemeinsamer Lernprozess von Regierung und Parlament am Beispiel der Stadt Burgdorf by Daniel Kettiger

“…In the course of the last ten years, the audit committee has pragmatically developed an administration control process which is suitable for militia and scrutinizes the administrative management annually. …”
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Femmes militaires dans un contexte d’armée de milice « sans conflit » : quelles logiques d’engagement ? by Stéphanie Monay

“…The Swiss Army is still based on a militia system with a compulsory military service for every Swiss male citizen. …”
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La «calda» estate africana del 413 e la risposta normativa ravennate by Lorenzo Lanti

“…Honorius promulgated measures on two issues: on the one hand, he dealt with the difficult coexistence between the possessores and the militia who, more and more frequently, asked to be hosted on the estates during the discharge of their duties; on the other hand, Ravenna’s concern was to eliminate any trace that could be attributed to the consul Heraclianus, author of an incursion into Italy in the summer of 413, with the declaration of hostis publicus and the rescissio actorum.…”
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Lovers in Arms: Empedoclean Love and Strife in Lucretius and the Elegists by Donncha O’Rourke

“…These examples suggest that elegy’s manifold juxtapositions of Mars and Venus, peace and war, and even militia amoris may be more frequently informed by Empedocleo-Lucretian implications than we are accustomed to think.…”
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La question macédonienne pendant la guerre civile grecque by Christina Alexopoulos

“…The governmental propaganda transformed the Macedonian question into the “ultimate proof” of the communists committing “national treason” with regard to the “Slavic danger” and did its best to hide the collaborationism, of which, the nationalist militia was guilty of. Despite the return of Democracy in the country, the way the question is actually being treated in politics and by the media is revelatory of the nationalism reigning in the past and still evident even amidst the civil society of the present age.…”
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