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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"rebel groups"”.
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How Civil Wars End: The Influence of Rebel Groups
… attention to strategic interactions between rebels and states, including how rebel groups mutate and shape competition to reach different conflict outcomes. Yet, the critical link between rebel groups - their pre-war organisations, foundations, and coercive capacities - with conflict outcomes …
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How Civil Wars End: The Influence of Rebel Groups
… attention to strategic interactions between rebels and states, including how rebel groups mutate and shape competition to reach different conflict outcomes. Yet, the critical link between rebel groups - their pre-war organisations, foundations, and coercive capacities - with conflict outcomes …
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International norm echoing in rebel groups: The cases of the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
<p>This research demonstrates that rebel groups use international norms in their discourse and echo patterns in the discourse of states and that they do so to promote their own legitimacy at key turning points in their conflicts. Which international norms rebel groups use most frequently is …
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Politics among rebels: the causes of division between dissidents
What explains the variation in the number of rebel groups across civil conflicts? Prior research has established that conflicts with multiple rebels groups are among the most severe cases in terms of duration, fatalities, and possibilities for recurrence. Yet, we know little about why the structure …
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Inter -Rebel Group Dynamics: Cooperation or Competition. The Case of South Asia
… focuses on the interactions of armed groups that challenge the sovereignty of a state and raises the question: under what conditions do rebel groups cooperate or compete with each other? It deviates from the standard explorations into political, economic and social factors that affect …
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WHY FIGHT WHEN YOU CAN RULE TOGETHER? REBEL POWER-SHARING DURING CIVIL WARS
Rebel groups operating in multi-ethnic societies during civil wars face complex challenges in consolidating territorial control and establishing governance structures that are inclusive of diverse ethnic constituencies. While existing literature has extensively studied the violent dynamics between …
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Rebel Organizations, Force Structure, and the Dynamics of Violence in Armed Intrastate Conflicts
A burgeoning literature examines how armed groups’ force structure, i.e. who fights for them, and their external support contributes to conflict dynamics. Building on this, this thesis seeks to further our understanding of rebel organizations’ use of violence in civil war. Across four substantive …
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The Choice of Terrorism in Conflict and the Outcomes of Mixed Methods of Dissent
… one investigates the conditions under which groups that participate in mass dissent choose to initiate terrorist campaigns. I find that groups involved in either civil war or mass civil resistance might face strategic constraints that encourage them to resort to terrorism, due to perceived …
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Transnational Dynamics of Civil War Peace Processes
… the role that the transnational linkages, which rebel groups form with various state and non-state actors, play during different stages of peace processes. The thesis explains how rebel groups’ transnational linkages affect the probability of peace settlements and the probability of peace …
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Sexual violence victim-witnesses at the Special Court for Sierra Leone: Have lessons from ICTR been learnt?
… male soldiers from the government armed forces, rebel groups, paramilitary groups and even peace keeping forces. The countries whose armed conflicts were characterised by acts of rape and sexual violence include; Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Uganda, Sudan, Yugoslavia (Bosnia and …
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The Insurgent's Dilemma: A Theory of Mobilization and Conflict Outcome
Why do some rebel groups win while others lose? Current explanations for why the outcomes of insurgencies vary tend to either overlook the role that the population plays in supporting an insurgency or fail to specify how the requirements of a rebel group's mobilization of popular support might have …
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Legitimacy, state-building, and civilian targeting in separatist civil wars
… on the strategic decision making of separatist rebel groups. Since the end of the Cold War, the number of new states in the international system has increased consistently. Many of these have risen from the ashes of states that have collapsed under the weight of their own domestic political and …
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Insurgents, Rebel Governance and State-building in sub-Saharan Africa
The scholarship on rebel governance has largely focused on understanding how rebels govern during conflict. However, little is known about how rebel governance influences long-term state reconstruction after conflict. The main objective of this research is to address this gap. The research also …
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Legitimacy in Conflict Contexts: Shifting Rebel Engagement in Sierra Leone and the Presence of Private Contractors
… significantly changed the nature of conflict. Rebel groups increasingly challenge state rule while private military and security companies (PMSCs) increasingly enter conflict spaces on behalf of a variety of actors, including states seeking to suppress insurgencies. This case study of the …
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Modern Slavery: A Thorough Examination on Human Trafficking of Indigenous Women and Children in Mexico
… also examines the role of organized crime groups in human trafficking throughout Mexico. It dissects the involvement of corrupt government officials in organized crime and human trafficking and explains the intersectionality of criminal groups and corrupted authorities and government …
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The cityscape and the modern gaze in Bogotá, 1930-1950
… more recently because of the peace talks with rebel groups. In spite of its thriving economy, Colombia is among the Latin American countries with the highest levels of inequality. Scholars from different fields have addressed this problem and it has also become part of the national agenda to …
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THE STRATEGIC USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BY THE ISLAMIC STATE: EXPLORING THE CONTENT AND TECHNOLOGY OF EXTREMISM
… militant movement and an effective rebel government in order to outbid rival rebel groups, especially those affiliated with al Qaeda. Its extremist violence has a dual purpose. Inside its territories, it seeks to polarize Muslims into clear categories of Sunni in-groups and Shiite …
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Allied democratic forces (ADF) in Uganda: A Jihadi- Salafi movement or local political movement in disguise
… defeat forced them to join other non-Muslim rebel groups to form the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). In addition, this study confirmed that, persuasive rhetoric of ADF leader, Jamilu Mukulu in addition to a long history of economic, social and political marginalisation of Muslims in Uganda by …
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Two paths to nationhood : explaining the goals of ethnic rebellions
… in the ethnic conflict literature, ethnic rebellions do not have to be separatist. Indeed, roughly one third of the largest ethnic rebellions since World War II have been attempts to take over, rather than separate from, existing states. Incorporating theories of nationalism and collective …
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In the Shadow of Rivalry: Rebel Alliances and Civil War
… a wellspring of strength for aligning militant groups. This leads to a peculiar result, whereby the internal factors enabling groups to overcome the problem of collective action may also contribute to the "conflict trap." Testable implications are derived and examined empirically via a new …
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