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From the Ted Talk by Benedetta Berti: The surprising way groups like ISIS stay in power

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Now, this is a really cplmeox picture, yet in the West, when we look at armed gpuors, we only think of the violent side. But that's not enough to usetnanrdd these groups' strength, sattgrey or long-term vision. These groups are hybrid. They rise because they fill a gap left by the government, and they emerge to be both amred and plcioaitl, engage in violent struggle and proivde governance.

And the more these ognzainraotis are complex and sophisticated, the less we can think of them as the opposite of a state. Now, what do you call a group like Hezbollah? They run part of a territory, they asmienitdr all their functions, they pick up the garbage, they run the sewage system. Is this a state? Is it a rebel group? Or maybe something else, something different and new? And what about ISIS? The liens are blurred. We live in a world of states, non-states, and in-between, and the more states are weak, like in the Middle East today, the more non-state actors step in and fill that gap. This matters for gotenvenrms, because to counter these groups, they will have to isvnet more in non-military tools. Filling that governance gap has to be at the center of any sustainable approach. This also matters very much for peacemaking and peacebuilding. If we better understand armed groups, we will better know what incentives to offer to encourage the transition from violence to novinenloce.

Open Cloze


Now, this is a really _______ picture, yet in the West, when we look at armed ______, we only think of the violent side. But that's not enough to __________ these groups' strength, ________ or long-term vision. These groups are hybrid. They rise because they fill a gap left by the government, and they emerge to be both _____ and _________, engage in violent struggle and _______ governance.

And the more these _____________ are complex and sophisticated, the less we can think of them as the opposite of a state. Now, what do you call a group like Hezbollah? They run part of a territory, they __________ all their functions, they pick up the garbage, they run the sewage system. Is this a state? Is it a rebel group? Or maybe something else, something different and new? And what about ISIS? The _____ are blurred. We live in a world of states, non-states, and in-between, and the more states are weak, like in the Middle East today, the more non-state actors step in and fill that gap. This matters for ___________, because to counter these groups, they will have to ______ more in non-military tools. Filling that governance gap has to be at the center of any sustainable approach. This also matters very much for peacemaking and peacebuilding. If we better understand armed groups, we will better know what incentives to offer to encourage the transition from violence to ___________.

Solution


  1. administer
  2. lines
  3. organizations
  4. nonviolence
  5. understand
  6. armed
  7. complex
  8. governments
  9. groups
  10. political
  11. invest
  12. strategy
  13. provide

Original Text


Now, this is a really complex picture, yet in the West, when we look at armed groups, we only think of the violent side. But that's not enough to understand these groups' strength, strategy or long-term vision. These groups are hybrid. They rise because they fill a gap left by the government, and they emerge to be both armed and political, engage in violent struggle and provide governance.

And the more these organizations are complex and sophisticated, the less we can think of them as the opposite of a state. Now, what do you call a group like Hezbollah? They run part of a territory, they administer all their functions, they pick up the garbage, they run the sewage system. Is this a state? Is it a rebel group? Or maybe something else, something different and new? And what about ISIS? The lines are blurred. We live in a world of states, non-states, and in-between, and the more states are weak, like in the Middle East today, the more non-state actors step in and fill that gap. This matters for governments, because to counter these groups, they will have to invest more in non-military tools. Filling that governance gap has to be at the center of any sustainable approach. This also matters very much for peacemaking and peacebuilding. If we better understand armed groups, we will better know what incentives to offer to encourage the transition from violence to nonviolence.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
armed groups 5
governance gap 3
social services 2
gap left 2


Important Words


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