Musical warriors: British military music and musicians during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars by O'Keeffe, EW

“…</p> <p>Military mobilisation palpably shaped nineteenth-century musical culture. Volunteer and militia bands established in wartime continued playing together for decades after Waterloo while discharged regimental instrumentalists actively contributed to provincial and colonial musical life as teachers, performers, and retailers. …”

Community responses to Jihadist mobilisation in Central Mali by Rupesinghe, N

“…Faced with violence, powerholders leverage their repressive capacities to violently resist, whether through military partnerships, village brigades or grassroots militias. It was micro-level grievances around land, power and status, rather than national-level ones that drove these choices. …”

Syndicalism, work and science in Simone Weil’s philosophy of modernity by Holt, A

“…<p>Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a political philosopher and revolutionary-syndicalist militant who put her own body on the line as a factory worker in 1935; mobilised herself in an anarchist militia in northern Spain in 1936 and engaged as a résistante in France and then in London in de Gaulle’s Forces Françaises Libres during the Occupation. …”

Secular policy enforcement during the personal rule of Charles I : the administrative work of parish officers in the 1630s by Langel�ddecke, H

“…Far from being perfect, the militias maintained their standard under the constant supervision of the Deputy Lieutenants. …”

Hijos de la patria: tensiones y pasiones de la inclusión en la nación Argentina entre los afroporteños a fines del siglo XIX by Lea Geler

“…From a historical-anthropological approach, a counterpoint between two relevant processes is presented: their participation in the militia and in the electoral struggles. In both situations, we discover how afroporteños positioned themselves as agents of fundamental historical importance. …”
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Communist Party Organs and Non-governmental Organizations in People’s Republic of Tuva during Great Patriotic war by Aldyn-ool K. Kanzay

“…The steps and measures initiated by the Revolutionary Party include the program of wartime rebuilding of the economy (adopted at the 2nd plenum of the Central Committee of Tuvan National Revolutionary Party (CC TNRP), June 26, 1941); plans of mass production of skis and warm clothes for the Red Army, of an increase in livestock and crop field areas, of enhancing competitive work and introducing ‘shock work’ practices (adopted at 3rd Plenum of CC TNRP, December 22, 1941); the resolution on the readiness to enlist Tuvan youth in the Red Army, adopted by the 3rd session of the PRT’s Small Khural, February 17, 1942; the joint order by the Cabinet of Ministers of PRT and the CC TNRP to set up a system of war training for the citizens of PRT and a national militia, adopted in July 1942; etc. The war years gave rise to a lot of grassroots initiatives of supporting the USSR, the most massive and fruitful among them being the movement to raise the money for the USSR’s Defense Fund. …”
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The Role of the Political Theology of Martyrdom in the Formation of Proto-National Patriotism in Medieval Europe by Aleksey V. Yarkeev

“…The need to protect the empire from barbaric invasions forces theologians to develop the concepts of just war (bellum iustum) and holy war (bellum sacrum), which led to the secularization of the idea of the army of Christ (militia Christi) that initially implied participation in the battle with the forces of evil only on the rights of a spiritual army. …”
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Mortality, violence and access to care in two districts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti by Van Herp Michel, Ford Nathan, Ponsar Frédérique, Mancini Silvia, Bachy Catherine

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Towards the end of 2006 open conflict broke out between United Nations forces and armed militia in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Fighting was most intense in the district of Cité Soleil.…”
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Frontier Army of the Late Roman Empire in the Mid-4th c. A.D. (Case of Isauria and the Rhine Frontier): on the Ways of Territorial Deployment of Military Units by Evgeniy Mekhamadiev

“…The hard and cruel mountain landscape enforced to make the bands of irregular city militia – in the case of Isaurian assaults citizens formed military detachments, which were temporarily attached to regular units called vexillations. …”
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“The six-month bullet fence”: the voice of armed conflict survivors in Kobo and Agamsa districts, Amhara region of Ethiopia by Shambel Desale Gashaw, Eyayu Kasseye Bayu, Endeshaw Aynetu Bitew, Getachew Gebyaw Tadesse, Tebaber Chanie Workneh

“…AbstractFollowing the politically motivated and ethnically induced war, Tigray People Liberation Front political and militia groups inflicted a deliberate massacre of civilians in the Kobo and Agamsa districts of the Amhara region. …”
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Recurring Armed Conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: an Insight into the SADC Intervention Problematique by Sadiki Maeresera, Knocks Tapiwa Zengeni

“…The surrender of the March 23 (M23) rebels, followed by overtures to incorporate the same into the Congolese military and political institutions, seem not to have made much significant impact on the security stability in the eastern part of the country. Armed activities by militia groups such as the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR), the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and various Mayi Mayi groups are likely to cause a recurrence of a fully fledged armed conflict in eastern Congo. …”
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Recurring Armed Conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: an Insight into the SADC Intervention Problematique by Sadiki Maeresera, Knocks Tapiwa Zengeni

“…The surrender of the March 23 (M23) rebels, followed by overtures to incorporate the same into the Congolese military and political institutions, seem not to have made much significant impact on the security stability in the eastern part of the country. Armed activities by militia groups such as the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR), the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and various Mayi Mayi groups are likely to cause a recurrence of a fully fledged armed conflict in eastern Congo. …”
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Legal regulation of the police officers' powers of the Ukrainian SSR in the 1920s of the XX century by S. V. Vasyliev

“…In the second half of the 1920s the rights and duties of police officers were established in the Regulations on the Workers’ and Peasants’ Militia dated November 10, 1926, and the Administrative Code of the Ukrainian SSR dated 1927. …”
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Struktura terenowej administracji wyznaniowej PRL na przykładzie Wydziału do Spraw Wyznań w Zielonej Górze w latach 1950–1972 by Dariusz Mazurkiewicz

“…The action plan towards the Gorzów Church was developed by the Department for Religious Affairs in Zielona Góra in conjunction with the Administrative Department of the Provincial Committee of the Polish United Workers ’Party and the 4th Department of the Provincial Citizens Militia Headquarters. Finally, it consulted with the Administrative Department of the Central Committee, as this was the committee that pursued the long-term goals of the denominational policy defined by successive conventions of the Polish United Workers’ Party. …”
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Documents of the Russian Archive of Jan Piotr Sapieha: Findings of 2013–2018 by Igor O. Tyumentsev, Nataliya A. Tupikova, Nina E. Tyumentseva

“…Introduction of revealed new documents to the scientific discourse enables us to examine previously known events from new perspectives reflecting confrontation of different political forces, to correlate the newly-appeared facts, to clear up the process of converting Russian population to Cossacks by means of robbing the populace (zemshchina) on the territories under “Tushino Regime”, to detail the circumstances of the beginning of the first militia, systematize the information about the state of peasants and orders reigning in Cossack Regiments of Tushino forces as well as in governing bodies of local administration (office environment), to reveal the sources of popular unrests in occupied Moscow, to show social and class, family and household problems of Russian people on the lands occupied by outlanders. …”
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¿Una distopía que supera a la ficción? El cuento de la criada como ideal del aceleracionismo. The A dystopia that comes true? The Handmaid's Tale as an axis of accelerationism. by Eva Gómez Fernández

“…In this article, our main interest is to analyze the theocratic nature of the totalitarian regime that is implemented in this show and how it is sustained thanks to two axes: misogyny and the militia movement. To analyze it accurately, we will resort to literary sources, viewing the full episodes and, finally, we will take into account secondary sources from the newspaper archives. …”
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Diplomacy from below by Bernini, E

“…Once arrested and kidnapped on the sea by Chinese state-sponsored militia, the Vietnamese Government insufficently supports rescue operations and does not engage in high-level talks with the kidnappers. …”

Recurring Armed Conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: an Insight into the SADC Intervention Problematique by Maeresera, Sadiki, Zengeni, Knocks Tapiwa

“…Conflict recurrence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) provides a litmus test to the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC’s) capacity to sustainably resolve the conflict and build peace.The surrender of the March 23 (M23) rebels, followed by overtures to incorporate the same into the Congolese military and political institutions, seem not to have made much significant impact on the security stability in the eastern part of the country. Armed activities by militia groups such as the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR), the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and various Mayi Mayi groups are likely to cause a recurrence of a fully fledged armed conflict in eastern Congo. …”
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Milicianos y milicias en la provincia de Santa Fe: una vista desde el sector subordinado (1781-1788) by Mauricio Puentes Cala

“…This text is intended, to offer a reflection broadly on the situation of the human element attached to the miliciassantafereñas, pointing about the popular nature of this institution, taking into account, the influence and interweaving of subordinate sectors emanated from the peasantry and the craft dependent on colonial society,on the representativeness and performance of the militia as a corporate structure within the cyclical processes that had been brewing in the Viceroyalty since the end in the 18th century, and which served as a prelude to the civil wars of independence and the declineof Spanish colonial hegemony.…”
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Archival sources on the implementation of the Decree “On separation of church from state, and school from church” in Kazakhstan in the 1920s (based on materials of Akmola district)... by Galya Alpyspaeva

“…These are records of Akmola workers’ and peasants’ militia (F. 247), records of the administration of Executive committee of Akmola district (F. 259) and of the City council of representatives of workers of Akmola (F. 32); legislative and legal acts and correspondence of authorities of various levels as to the issues of implementing the decree; questionnaires for registering the clergy in the district. …”
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