Klejda Mulaj
Auteur de Violent Non-State Actors in World Politics (Columbia/Hurst)
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- Klejda’s research interests centre on conflict, security and peace studies – including causes of war, nationalism, state-formation, reconciliation, and post-conflict rebuilding. She has undertaken extensive work on the causes and consequences of war/s and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans with particular reference to the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, results of which have been published in various journals as well as a book entitled Politics of Ethnic Cleansing (Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, 2010).
Recently she has completed editing a volume entitled Violent Non-State Actors in World Politics (2010), published jointly with Hurst and Columbia University Press. In exploring the correlation between violent non-state actors (VNSAs) and the environment that creates and nurtures them, this book unravels conditions which give rise to VNSAs and afterwards sustain them with a view to identifying suitable policy responses.
Klejda is currently working on a project on Statebuilding, Intervention and Legitimation which interrogates ways in which the legitimacy of statebuilding might be achieved; how might the legitimacy of statebuilding projects be evaluated; and what forms critiques of such legitimacy might take.
Klejda has taught at university level since 2001 and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She welcomes PhD proposals on any aspect of conflict analysis and post-conflict rebuilding.
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Violent Non-state Actors in World Politics par Klejda Mulaj
The 2008 attacks on Mumbai were carried out by a Pakistani militant group known as Lashkar i-Taiba, termed a 'non-state actor' by Pakistan's president, Asif Zardari. In most cases, violent non-state actors (VNSAs) rise as a state fails, resorting to organized attacks as a brutally effective method for advancing their political aims and other goals. Currently operating in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia, and Sudan, VNSAs can take the form of national liberation movements confronting an occupying force; insurgents engaged in protracted political and military struggles that eat at the power and legitimacy of a ruling government; terrorists who use threats or violent acts to effect political change; irregular yet recognizable armed forces working within an ungoverned area or failing state; and mercenary militias, such as those used by Shell, or army-loaded units, such as those used in the Niger Delta. The essays in this volume map the relationship between VNSAs and the state, following the political, economic, and social processes that contribute to the emergence of these groups and how VNSAs in turn use these processes to trigger a crisis of the state. Contributors locate the point in which violence becomes desirable to the non-state actor and whether this alters the purpose of the relationship between VNSAs and the state, and they track the influence that the former can have in reshaping the governments they tear down. One of the first resources to describe these groups in full, this volume explains the internal structure of VNSAs, their recruitment strategies and leading ideologies, the characteristics and partnerships that allow them to adapt and prosper, and the fundamental similarities and differences between groups.… (plus d'informations)
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