Forgotten Actors: Exploring the Use of Pro-Government Militias

The Impact of Pro-Government Militias on Human Rights Violations

People’s war: militias in East Timor and Indonesia

Much of what has been written about East Timor’s militias has focused on their relationship with the armed forces, and on the latter’s legal responsibility for the 1999 violence. This preoccupation with culpability, while important and understandable under the circumstances, has obscured the much deeper historical origins of the violence and the militias, and has diverted attention from the not...

Hamas, Taliban and the Jewish Underground: AN ECONOMIST’S VIEW OF RADICAL RELIGIOUS MILITIAS

Can rational choice modeling explain destructive behavior among the Taliban, Hamas and other radical religious militias? This paper proposes a club good framework which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local public goods in the absence of government provision. The sacrifices these groups demand are economically efficient (as in Iannaccone (1...

سلفی های لیبی و انقلاب 17 فوریه

The socio-political upheavals in MENA (Middle East and North Africa) during the last 3 years have revived the oppressed political groups in the previous dictatorships. All these groups, even the pro-dictator ones, are trying to play role in the new era and take up the future of their country’s political system. In this time, in Libya, despite of formation of the transitional government, differe...

Forgotten Migrated Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Device and its rare complication rare case report from Kashmir Valley

The intra-uterine device (Copper T) has been widely used as contraceptive method since 1965. Due to its low cost, effective and reversible nature and long-term benefits, it is widely being used in the developing world. The intra-uterine contraceptive device (IUCD) has been linked to complications like bleeding, perforation and migration to other surrounding organs. The intra-abdomen migration o...