The Favela (Slum) As A City – Children Growing Up In Territories Of Public (In)Security by Adelaide Rezende de Souza, Lucia Rabello de Castro

“…However, these are territories that have histories of struggle, including both the “slow resistances” before military and police interventions to the capacity to preserve one’s livelihood in the midst of rivalries between armed drug factions and militia. In the present paper, we seek to analyze how being a child in the Maré favela implies living the street as contiguous to home. …”
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State and Civil Society Relationships in Indonesia: A society-oriented Reading in Search for Democratic Space by Aris Arif Mundayat, Pitra Narendra, Budi Irawanto

“…The third problem can be found in the situation where weak civil society faces an ineffective state which tends to stimulate the emergence of extralegal governmentality practiced by thugs, militia, vigilantes, and paramilitaries. The fourth problem is reflected in the situation where a strong civil society faces an effective state.…”
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THE STRANGER AMONG US IN COMICS FROM CUTEZĂTORII MAGAZINE. CONSTRUCTING CHILDREN’S POLITICAL IDENTITIES THROUGH INTERACTION WITH THE OTHER IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA by Oana-Ramona ILOVAN

“…Both comics series glorify the collaboration with the Militia, the State Security, and their surveillance methods (through technology and responsible employees and citizens). …”
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The Militarization of Mass Incapacitation and Torture during the Sunni Insurgency and American Occupation of Iraq by John L. Hagan, Anna Hanson

“…Intensive policing and imprisonment enabled the American-led and Shia-dominated Iraq Ministries of Defense and Interior along with U.S. forces to play significant roles in the ethnic cleansing and displacement of Arab Sunnis from Baghdad neighborhoods, and in their disproportionate detention in military- and militia-operated facilities, of which the Abu Ghraib prison is only the best known. …”
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The Europeans in the USA War of Independence by Mykhailo Kirsenko

“…The European liberals and military officers, plaid important role in attracting public opinion to America, organizing infrastructure, training infantry and cavalry, transforming voluntary militia into the Continental Congress regular army and navy. …”
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La república de Donato Giannotti: Rara Avis de la teoría política renacentista by María Luisa Soriano González

“…The ideal republic would then a well ordered republic internally because of the respect for good laws and externally, because of the militia that protect it from external invasions.…”
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The Sanitary Service of the 431st Tikhvin Infantry Regiment during World War I by Vera V. Bondareva, Natalia V. Eilbart

“…The novelty of the present paper is seen in the fact that it is the first study devoted to the formation of the medical service of the regiment, starting with the militia squads. It is proved that in the squads the sanitary unit was not independent but relied on the zemstvo medical system of the cities and on the infirmaries of the garrisons. …”
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Resolusi Konflik Kelompok Kriminal Bersenjata Papua by Muhammad Rasyiid Amanda, Budi Pramono

“…The Papuan armed criminal group does not match the characteristics and definition of terrorists, in which terrorists do not aim to establish their own country and seek their sovereignty through militia and diplomacy. The Papuan Armed Criminal Group aims to get international attention, hoping that the land of Papua can become a sovereign country. …”
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The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, vol 19-23, Ratification of the Constitution by the States. New York (Book Review) by Maier, Pauline

“…It also includes entries for the major issues in the ratification debates --- army, standing; balanced government; bills of rights; elections (Congress’s power to set aside state provisions for Congressional elections in Article I, Section 4, provoked a lot of opposition); militia; President; religious tests (for office); representation; supremacy clause, and taxation, which has almost five columns of sub-entries.…”
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‘Pando/Pando’ Across the Americas: Transnational Settler Territorialities and Decolonial Pluralities by René Dietrich

“…<p>In Allison Hedge Coke’s 2015 poem “Pando/Pando,” Pando is, in one instance, the site of a 2008 massacre in Bolivia, in which thirteen Evo Morales supporters, many Indigenous, were killed by a militia backed by a US-supported right-wing opposition. …”
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Old Conflict, New Complex Emergency: An Analysis of Darfur Crisis, Western Sudan by Usman A. Tar

“…It eventually fermented into a sustained armed conflict between, on the one hand, the armed forces of Sudan and its allied proxy militia drawn from Arab ethnicity and, on the other, the two rebel groups comprising mainly of non-Arab African ethnic groups – the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa. …”
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Kurdish Female Fighters: the Western Depiction of YPJ Combatants in Rojava by Valentina Dean

“…This paper considers three significant questions for its purpose; first, who are Kurdish female fighters and why did they choose to take up arms in an orga- nized militia? Second, how did the Western media portray the YPJ? …”
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Dr. Enrique Suárez Hernández, eminent professor of the Institute of Basic and Pre-Clinical Sciences “Victoria de Girón” by Gabriela Alonso Bermúdez, Susana Núñez Martineaux, Bárbara Ivette Palmeiro Vivanco

“…After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, he became member of the National Revolutionary Militia. Dr. Enrique was one of the founders of the “Comités de Defensa de la Revolución” (CDR) and a member of the “Central de Trabajadores de Cuba” (CTC). …”
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Violence in the Citadel by Adewale Rotimi

“…The changes observable in the Nigerian society included violent military coups, state, sponsored political assassinations proliferation of ethnic militia, communal clashes and total erosion of the traditional family values. …”
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Civil War in Ukraine: Scientific Approaches and the Factor of the Cossacks by Anton Bredikhin

“…The fact that there are a significant number of Russian citizens among the militia, primarily from among the Cossacks, is due to the historical unity of the lands of the pre-revolutionary Region of the Don Army, socio-cultural and blood-related factors. …”
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Jan Grudziński “Płomień” (1914-1948) by Grzegorz Karpiński

“…He was in charge of the militia unit in the IV region. Then he was promoted to the rank of sergeant. …”
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Mobilisation in the Army of Admiral Kolchak (Irbit Uyezd, Perm Province, March 1919) by Mikhail Igorevich Weber

“…The disorders were quickly suppressed by the militia of Irbitsky Uyezd, who arrested 13 instigators and flogged all the draftees in the village of Komleva. …”
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Mass Arrivals of Poles in the 1980s as a Symptom of Political and Economic Changes in the Eastern Bloc by Joanna Sadowska

“…Poles sometimes demonstrated their critical attitude to the Communist regime, manifested freedom or religious attitudes and often broke harsh Soviet rules. The militia and secret service found them to be troublesome guests. …”
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Don Quixote and Saint John of the Cross’s Spiritual Chivalry by Luce López-Baralt

“…John’s relic, an authentic knight of the heavenly militia, Don Quixote seems to silently acknowledge that there are higher chivalries than his own that he will never reach. …”
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The Chinese Sultanate by Haiyun Ma

“…The fifth and sixth chapters concentrate on Han hostility toward the Hui and documents in detail the massacre of Muslims by Han officials and militia as well as major Hui resistance campaigns: rebellions in Yunnan’s eastern, southern, and western regions. …”
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