scholarly journals Rebel movements in the DRC as sub-national terrorists and the need for appropriate counter initiatives

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo Neethling
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Clear Correlation ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
State Terror ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The North ◽  
Domestic Terrorists ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Contemporary Writing

The word “terrorism” has been used in various political and policy contexts, and studied in several scholarly disciplines. Most contemporary writing on terrorism focuses on the international dimensions or manifestations of terrorism. However, in Africa, sub- national terror (and even state terror) has been a feature of conflict on the African continent. This ranges from amorphous internationally connected groups in which people locally band together around a religious paradigm, to rebels who terrify civilians in civil wars, e.g. the armed movements in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Specifically, the north-eastern and eastern parts of the DRC have been major conflict zones where sub-national or domestic terrorists employed and continue to employ terror as a strategy. This paper examines rebel movements in the DRC as a phenomenon of sub-national terrorism – a phenomenon that manifests in life-and-death struggles over access to mineral resources and where there is a clear correlation between conflict and the accumulation of resources.

‘A Welsh Lancashire’? Monmouthshire Catholics in the Eighteenth Century

1979 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Jesuit Mission ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
Popish Plot

In the seventeenth century, one of the Catholic strongholds of Britain had lain on the southern Welsh borders, in those areas of north Monmouthshire and southern Herefordshire dependant on the Marquis of Worcester at Raglan, and looking to the Jesuit mission at Cwm. Abergavenny and Monmouth had been largely Catholic towns, while the north Monmouthshire countryside still merited the attention of fifteen priests in the 1670s—after the Civil Wars, and the damaging conversion to Protestantism of the heir of Raglan in 1667. Conspicuous Catholic strength caused fear, and the ‘Popish Plot’ was the excuse for a uniquely violent reaction, in which the Jesuit mission was all but destroyed. What happened after that is less clear. In 1780, Berington wrote that ‘In many [counties], particularly in the west, in south Wales, and some of the Midland counties, there is scarcely a Catholic to be found’. Modern histories tend to reflect this, perhaps because of available evidence. The archives of the Western Vicariate were destroyed in a riot in Bath in 1780, and a recent work like J. H. Aveling's The Handle and the Axe relies heavily on sources and examples from the north of England. This attitude is epitomised by Bossy's remark on the distribution of priests in 1773: ‘In Wales, the mission had collapsed’. However, the question of Catholic survival in eighteenth-century Wales is important. In earlier assessments of Catholic strength (by landholding, or number of recusants gaoled as a proportion of population) Monmouthshire had achieved the rare feat of exceeding the zeal of Lancashire, and Herefordshire was not far behind. If this simply ceased to exist, there was an almost incredible success for the ‘short, sharp’ persecution under Charles II. If, however, the area remained a Catholic fortress, then recent historians of recusancy have unjustifiably neglected it.

scholarly journals KAZAKHSTAN-CHINA UNDER THE INITIATIVE «ONE BELT - ONE ROAD» RELATIONSHIPS AND CONFLICT ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Darkenov ◽  
◽  
K. Kakar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
North West ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The North ◽  
Eurasian Continent ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Strategic Position ◽  
The One ◽  
The Silk Road

Central Asia is the heart of the Eurasian continent, a region directly adjacent to China, and the Silk Road, which connects the Eurasian continent, passes through this region. Kazakhstan is a country rich in natural resources and energy in Central Asia. Apart from the mineral resources of Central Asia, its location as the center of two continents, its importance in China's foreign trade and its strategic position in the defense of the North-West Frontier, made Kazakhstan known to the world about the location of this project. Since 2014, China has focused on the "One Belt - One Road" strategy in the region. Since 2014, economic relations between the two countries have developed under the "One Belt - One Road" initiative, but the problems remain. The article is devoted to the analysis of economic relations between the two countries and give some suggestions to solve the problem

Structural framework and the timing of landscape-forming faults - a study from Western Norway

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åse Hestnes ◽  
Deta Gasser ◽  
Thomas Scheiber ◽  
Joachim Jacobs ◽  
Anna K. Ksienzyk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Measurements ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Clear Correlation ◽  
Late Mesozoic ◽  
The North ◽  
Slip Regime ◽  
Structural Framework ◽  
Western Norway ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Fault Gouge Dating

<p>Brittle fracture and fault networks control the location of topographic features such as valleys and ridges and active faulting can lead to topographic rejuvenation. In Western Norway, however, it is debated how much faulting has contributed to rejuvenating of the topography during the late Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Geometric and temporal constraints on the brittle evolution are therefore important to obtain a comprehensive picture of the post-Caledonian topographic evolution of this region. In this study, we combine remote sensing, structural field measurements, paleo-stress analysis and isotopic dating to study the brittle evolution of a larger region of Western Norway. The region spans from the Sognefjord in the south to the Møre margin in the north. Lineament studies reveal important lineament sets trending N-S, NE-SW, E-W and NW-SE. Field observations show that these lineament sets correspond to both dip-slip and strike-slip faults, some of them parallel to ductile precursor structures and some cutting the ductile fabric. Epidote, chlorite, quartz and zeolite are the dominant mineralizations on fracture and fault surfaces. There is no clear correlation between the type of mineralization and fracture orientation in the region. Paleostress analysis on fault-slip data (n = 173), including faults reactivating older structures, show a good fit with a general E-W extensional regime. However, a considerable amount of faults (n = 115) formed under a strike-slip regime, which has so far not been documented in the region. We combine these findings with K-Ar fault gouge dating from six faults where five fractions (6-10 µm, 2-6 µm, 0.4-2 µm, 0.1-0.4 µm, <0.1µm) from each sample were analysed. These faults represent two of the four fracture sets observed, trending N-S and NE-SW, respectively, and show either strike-slip or dip-slip kinematics. XRD-data from these gouges show that K-feldspar and smectite are the main sources of potassium. The ages show a spread from the Triassic to the Cretaceous, where older ages can be affected by K-feldspar inherited from the host rock. Our results point to an important phase of Mesozoic strike-slip faulting in the region, with steep faults controlling the location of several major valleys. Extensional dip-slip faults might have contributed to the rejuvenation of the footwall topography.</p>

The Gray Zone of State-Insurgency Interface

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-99
Author(s):  
Rumela Sen
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Local Population ◽  
The State ◽  
Gray Zone ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Civic Associations ◽  
The North ◽  
Police Action

This chapter emphasizes how the various steps in the process of disengagement from extremism are linked fundamentally to the nature of linkages between insurgency and society, thereby bringing civil society into the study of insurgency in a theoretically coherent way. In places where structural violence is pervasive and spectacular episodes of violence are also recurrent, this chapter shows how, from the perspective of local population, the conceptual lines between war and peace, legit and illicit, state and insurgency, lawful and lawless, crimes and political acts, police action and rebel resistance become blurred. Surrounded by violent specialists belonging to two warring sides, civilians in conflict zones learn to inhabit one foot in insurgency and one foot in the state, creating a sprawling gray zone of state-insurgency overlap. It is in these gray zones where grassroots civic associations nurture the first traces of informal exit networks, more successfully in the South than in the North.

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