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Serhii Bahlai
Serhii Bahlai is a research assistant/Ukraine coordinator at the Ukraine Security in Transition Project, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is also a security analyst at NGO "Come Back Alive!" His research interests include post-Soviet law enforcement agencies and the problems of reforming the security and defense sector.
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Group of authors: Surveys show Ukrainians don't want 'Kalashnikov society'
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed in the op-ed section are those of the authors and do not purport to reflect the views of the Kyiv Independent. The authors' research was funded by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada.
Images of warlords and militias from post-conflict societies around the world remind us that wars often lead to the proliferation of firearms, in turn fueling violence and lawlessness long after the main fighting ceases.
Such normalization
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