The Geneva-based NGO Centre on Armed Groups is dedicated to better understanding and engaging with armed groups. Others may be informally structured and use violence in other ways, such as kidnapping, using improvised explosive devices, or hacking into computer systems. Some VNSAs are organized as paramilitary groups, adopting methods and structure similar to those of state armed forces. While some VNSAs oppose governments, others are allied to them.
private military contractors), self-defence militia, and paramilitary groups established by state governments to further their interests. They may include narcotics cartels, popular liberation movements, religious and ideological organizations, corporations (e.g. VNSAs vary widely in their goals, size, and methods. In international relations, violent non-state actors ( VNSAs), also known as non-state armed actors or non-state armed groups ( NSAGs), are individuals or groups that are wholly or partly independent of governments and which threaten or use violence to achieve their goals.
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