Counter-insurgency: let’s remember where prevention comes from and its implications

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1. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/6/contents/enacted.

2. To prevent confusion, I will be using Colonel Erwin Brigham’s (1968, 27) definition of “Pacification – the military, political, economic and social process of establishing or re-establishing local government responsive to and involving the participation of the people. It includes the provision of sustained, credible territorial security, the destruction of the enemy’s underground government, the assertion or re-assertion of political control and involvement of the people in government, and the initiation of economic and social activity capable of self-sustenance and expansion. The economic element of pacification includes the opening of roads and waterways and the maintenance of lines of communication important to economic and military activity.”

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Alexander Dunlap

Alexander Dunlap is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focus has been on the social impact of wind energy projects in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. Here, he has been living the last seven months assessing the problems and social conflict generated by wind projects. Recent publications have been in the journals Anarchist Studies, Review of Social Economy, and a co-authored piece in Geopolitics, “The Militarisation and Marketisation of Nature: An Alternative Lens to ‘Climate-Conflict.’”