The strategic art of confronting armed groups

Engaging Nonstate Armed Groups on the Protection of Children: Towards Strategic Complementarity

This issue brief provides a brief overview of the legal, political, and operational frameworks protecting children from the effects of armed conflict, notably from violations by nonstate armed groups. It explores some of the limitations of these frameworks and their mechanisms, and then discusses ways to maximize the comparative advantages of different actors when engaging nonstate armed groups...

Non-State Armed Groups

Fragile States: the Birthplace of Non-State Armed Groups in West Asia

Due to both internal and external factors, Western Asia has long been suffering from security problems and political instability. The institution of various military and militia groups in the region in the absence of powerful central governments is the focal point of the crises, where the internal and external factors meet. The development of such security and military interactions outside the ...

Strategic Analysis of Art- Industry of Carpet in Markazi Province

For a long time, the handmade carpet of the Markazi province, especially the Sarouq brand, With A few hundred years old has been recognized as one of the symbols of Iranian art and culture in Iran and has played an important role in employment, non-oil exports and the Introducing the province art. Unfortunately, in the last decade, the provincechr('39')s carpet share has fallen sharply from dom...

Multi-armed Bandit Problems with Strategic Arms

We study a strategic version of the multi-armed bandit problem, where each arm is an individual strategic agent and we, the principal, pull one arm each round. When pulled, the arm receives some private reward va and can choose an amount xa to pass on to the principal (keeping va−xa for itself). All non-pulled arms get reward 0. Each strategic arm tries to maximize its own utility over the cour...