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Nicholas Higgins - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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An Interview with Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Spokesperson and Military Commander of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN)
International Affairs, 1999Co-Authors: Marta Duràn De Huerta, Nicholas HigginsAbstract:It has been just over three years since the signing of the peace agreernents at San Andres Larrainzar between the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and the Mexican federal government. While the talks broke down before all the tabled themes could be discussed, agreement was reached on the topic of Indian rights and culture. Since then the government has consistently failed to convert this agreement into constitutional law, a position viewed by the Zapatistas as further proof of governmental intransigence and an abject failure to take the possible peaceful resolution of the conflict seriously. More alarming still has been the increase in government linked paramilitary activity in Chiapas, a strategy of combat that most observers refer to as low intensity warfare. Conditions reached an all-time low with the massacre of 45 unarmed Indians in December I997, soon followed by the renunciation of Bishop Samuel Ruiz as the president of the only existing mediation body, the CONAI, and its subsequent dissolution. Attempts by foreign observers to visit Zapatista communities have also been made increasingly difficult, with the notorious expulsion of I34 Italian observers in May I998 being indicative of a more general governmental stance towards perceived foreign intervention. As political parties throughout the country begin preparing themselves for the presidential elections in the year 2000, Mexico may yet witness the end of 70 years of uninterrupted rule by the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Below, Subcomandante Marcos, spokesperson and military commander of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, talks exclusively of the nature of Zapatista politics and the reasons behind the latest peaceful Zapatista offensive, which
Leena Malkki - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Survival on a shoestring: the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) revisited
Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2010Co-Authors: Leena MalkkiAbstract:This article provides a reappraisal of the history of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) based on source-based research. Even if the case may appear marginal, it provides useful insights into the dynamics of terrorist campaigns and especially into the survival of small terrorist groups. It highlights the importance of examining the attitudes among the potential supporting communities beyond one of support or rejection of terrorism and suggests that even passive support can help a group significantly. Furthermore, the case provides further evidence for the observation that the role of ideology as a motivation for participation in terrorist campaigns should not be overstated.
Jonathan Matusitz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA): an examination through differential association theory
Journal of Applied Security Research, 2020Co-Authors: Alaina Rahaim, Jonathan MatusitzAbstract:AbstractThis paper applies Differential Association Theory to Patty Hearst’s involvement with the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a domestic terrorist group active in the 1970s. Developed by Edwi...
Alpaslan Özerdem - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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from a terrorist group to a civil defence corps the transformation of the kosovo Liberation Army
International Peacekeeping, 2003Co-Authors: Alpaslan ÖzerdemAbstract:The Kosovo Liberation Army, which was regarded as a ‘terrorist’ group in the early 1990s, has now been ‘transformed’ into the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) with the primary objective of protecting this war-torn province against ‘natural’ disasters. The creation of a ‘civilian’, uniformed and ‘multi-ethnic’ corps is a unique experience for the international community as it has been undertaken by a United Nations interim administration within the sovereignty of a state-the now defunct Federal Republic of Yugoslavia-that had no input during the planning or implementation of this transformation process. In fact, if it ends up comprising the core of a future Kosovar Army, as its members hope it will, the KPC is likely to pose a direct threat to the sovereignty of Serbia and Montenegro over Kosovo. This article explores the KPC transformation experience with a security sector reform perspective, focusing on institutional, political, financial and security aspects in order to identify lessons that can inform sim...
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From a ‘Terrorist’ Group to a ‘Civil Defence’ Corps: The ‘Transformation’ of the Kosovo Liberation Army
International Peacekeeping, 2003Co-Authors: Alpaslan ÖzerdemAbstract:The Kosovo Liberation Army, which was regarded as a ‘terrorist’ group in the early 1990s, has now been ‘transformed’ into the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) with the primary objective of protecting this war-torn province against ‘natural’ disasters. The creation of a ‘civilian’, uniformed and ‘multi-ethnic’ corps is a unique experience for the international community as it has been undertaken by a United Nations interim administration within the sovereignty of a state-the now defunct Federal Republic of Yugoslavia-that had no input during the planning or implementation of this transformation process. In fact, if it ends up comprising the core of a future Kosovar Army, as its members hope it will, the KPC is likely to pose a direct threat to the sovereignty of Serbia and Montenegro over Kosovo. This article explores the KPC transformation experience with a security sector reform perspective, focusing on institutional, political, financial and security aspects in order to identify lessons that can inform sim...
Marta Duràn De Huerta - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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An Interview with Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Spokesperson and Military Commander of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN)
International Affairs, 1999Co-Authors: Marta Duràn De Huerta, Nicholas HigginsAbstract:It has been just over three years since the signing of the peace agreernents at San Andres Larrainzar between the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and the Mexican federal government. While the talks broke down before all the tabled themes could be discussed, agreement was reached on the topic of Indian rights and culture. Since then the government has consistently failed to convert this agreement into constitutional law, a position viewed by the Zapatistas as further proof of governmental intransigence and an abject failure to take the possible peaceful resolution of the conflict seriously. More alarming still has been the increase in government linked paramilitary activity in Chiapas, a strategy of combat that most observers refer to as low intensity warfare. Conditions reached an all-time low with the massacre of 45 unarmed Indians in December I997, soon followed by the renunciation of Bishop Samuel Ruiz as the president of the only existing mediation body, the CONAI, and its subsequent dissolution. Attempts by foreign observers to visit Zapatista communities have also been made increasingly difficult, with the notorious expulsion of I34 Italian observers in May I998 being indicative of a more general governmental stance towards perceived foreign intervention. As political parties throughout the country begin preparing themselves for the presidential elections in the year 2000, Mexico may yet witness the end of 70 years of uninterrupted rule by the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Below, Subcomandante Marcos, spokesperson and military commander of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, talks exclusively of the nature of Zapatista politics and the reasons behind the latest peaceful Zapatista offensive, which
