1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778113203321

Autore

Weinstein Jeremy M.

Titolo

Inside rebellion : the politics of insurgent violence / / Jeremy M. Weinstein [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2006

ISBN

1-107-16778-7

1-281-08562-6

9786611085629

0-511-80865-8

0-511-35044-9

0-511-34864-9

0-511-34767-7

0-511-56899-1

0-511-34956-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 402 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Disciplina

322.4/2

Soggetti

Insurgency

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures, Tables, and Maps; List of Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Inside Rebellion; Introduction: Varieties of Rebellion; Part I The Structure of Rebel Organizations; Part II The Strategies of Rebel Groups; Part III Beyond Uganda, Mozambique, and Peru; Appendix A The Ethnography of Rebel Organizations; Appendix B Database on Civil War Violence; Appendix C The National Resistance Army Code of Conduct (Abridged); Appendix D Norms of Behavior for a Sendero Luminoso Commander; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Some rebel groups abuse noncombatant populations, while others exhibit restraint. Insurgent leaders in some countries transform local structures of government, while others simply extract resources for their own benefit. In some contexts, groups kill their victims selectively, while in other environments violence appears indiscriminate, even



random. This book presents a theory that accounts for the different strategies pursued by rebel groups in civil war, explaining why patterns of insurgent violence vary so much across conflicts. It does so by examining the membership, structure, and behavior of four insurgent movements in Uganda, Mozambique, and Peru. Drawing on interviews with nearly two hundred combatants and civilians who experienced violence firsthand, it shows that rebels' strategies depend in important ways on how difficult it is to launch a rebellion. The book thus demonstrates how characteristics of the environment in which rebellions emerge constrain rebel organization and shape the patterns of violence that civilians experience.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910566460103321

Autore

Vaz de Carvalho Carlos

Titolo

Game-Based Learning, Gamification in Education and Serious Games

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Soggetti

Education

Humanities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The aim of this book is to present and discuss new advances in serious games to show how they could enhance the effectiveness and outreach of education, advertising, social awareness, health, policies, etc. We present their use in structured learning activities, not only with a focus on game-based learning, but also on the use of game elements and game design techniques to gamify the learning process. The published contributions really demonstrate the wide scope of application of game-based approaches in terms of purpose, target groups, technologies and domains and one aspect they have in common is that



they provide evidence of how effective serious games, game-based learning and gamification can be.