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Nonprofits and Interest Groups in Crisis Management
"Nonprofit organizations and interest groups play a significant role in supplementing, complementing, and carrying out crisis management activities worldwide. Prior to a crisis event, nonprofits and interest groups are valuable in disaster planning..." – By Lauren K. McKeague, and Angela L. Bies
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Gradualism and Rupturism in the Contemporary Mapuche Movement in Chile
"Since the colonial period, Mapuche resistance in Chile has taken on different shades, oscillating between periods of warlike conflict and little dialogue with the winka (non-Indigenous) authorities and periods of..." – By Alessandra Seixlack, and Danielle Freire da Silva
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