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SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS (2) answer(s).
 
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Designing our sustainable energy future: A shock doctrine for energy / Bryant, Scott T   Journal Article
Bryant, Scott T Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract A lack of understanding amongst industry and government regarding future business model and policy routes for achieving renewable energy targets risks society falling short of the energy transition required to help limit global heating to 1.5 °C. Despite a lack of clarity regarding the business- and governance-models required to facilitate such a transition, the urgency for achieving this shift is becoming increasingly apparent amongst industry and government. This paper explores the business and governance-models seen as likely to facilitate the adoption and uptake of sufficient levels of VRE to meet the global energy sector's climate crisis mitigation responsibilities. A Grounded Theory approach was undertaken to investigate and analyse the results of 28 semi-structured interviews, the coding of which involved the identification of 4 themes and 12 sub-themes. These themes allowed the development of an overarching sectoral pathway solution, framed in the form of a ‘government keystone model’, that exemplifies the current sectoral reality that governments hold the power to clearly design and implement an economically, environmentally and societally beneficial shift to high levels of VRE. It is argued this proactive role could be adopted using the looming “shock” to the margins of traditional energy business models by rising levels of VRE.
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Troop retention in civil wars : desertion, denunciation, and military organization in the democratic Republic of Congo / Richards, Joanne   Journal Article
Richards, Joanne Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This article investigates the link between the organizational structure of nonstate armed groups and the ability of low-level combatants to desert without recapture. Throughout, I show that nonstate armed groups can adopt organizational structures that mimic those found in national armies and that are designed both to detect wannabe deserters and to facilitate the denunciation and recapture of those who manage to escape. The odds of a successful desertion are increased when territorial safe havens beyond the reach of these organizational structures are available. Three types of territorial safe haven are identified: (1) territory composed of rough terrain and/or free of nonstate armed groups and their informants; (2) United Nations (UN) bases and cantonment sites; and (3) other state and nonstate armed groups willing to accept deserters. These arguments are inductively developed from interviews with more than one hundred former members of nonstate armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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