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Democratic police reform, security sector reform, anti-corruption and spoilers: lessons from Georgia 民主警察改革、安全部门改革、反腐败和破坏者:格鲁吉亚的教训

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Conflict Security & Development Pub Date : 2022-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2022.2121916

Liam O’Shea

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Explaining the failure of internationally-supported defence and security reforms in Sahelian states 解释国际支持的萨赫勒国家国防和安全改革的失败

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Conflict Security & Development Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2022.2097776

Niagalé Bagayoko

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Competitive statebuilding from the demand-side: counter-state services and civilian choice in Kosovo, 1989-1998 需求方的竞争性国家建设:1989-1998年科索沃的反国家服务和平民选择

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Conflict Security & Development Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2022.2084283

Ian Madison

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Violent peace: community relations in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh after the Peace Accord 暴力和平:和平协定后孟加拉国吉大港山区(CHT)的社区关系

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Conflict Security & Development Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2022.2084284

R. Islam, Susanne Schech, U. Saikia

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What structures ex-combatants’ political participation? Exploring the dynamics of identification and groupness in rebel-to-party transformations 是什么构成了前战斗人员的政治参与?探索从叛军到政党转变过程中认同和群体的动态

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Conflict Security & Development Pub Date : 2022-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2022.2056389

Eliane Giezendanner, Bert Ingelaere

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Between hope and expectation: understanding ordinary ex-combatant agency in Sierra Leone’s TRC 在希望与期望之间:了解塞拉利昂共和共和国的普通前战斗人员机构

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Conflict Security & Development Pub Date : 2022-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2022.2059935

Sayra van den Berg

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Does representation matter: examining officer inclusion, citizen cooperation and police empowerment in a divided society 代表性重要吗:在一个分裂的社会中审视警官包容、公民合作和警察赋权

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Conflict Security & Development Pub Date : 2022-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2022.2056394

Daisy Muibu, Ifeoluwa M. Olawole

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Understanding the spatial variation of perceived threat outcomes in intergroup conflict: a case study of the ethnic and religious conflicts in Jos, Nigeria 族群间冲突中感知威胁结果的空间变异:以尼日利亚乔斯的种族和宗教冲突为例

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Conflict Security & Development Pub Date : 2022-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2022.2056390

Surulola Eke

{"title":"Understanding the spatial variation of perceived threat outcomes in intergroup conflict: a case study of the ethnic and religious conflicts in Jos, Nigeria","authors":"Surulola Eke","doi":"10.1080/14678802.2022.2056390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2022.2056390","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In extant scholarship on intergroup conflict, perceived threat is portrayed as either positively linked with conflict occurrence or neutralizable by individuals’ internal psychological inhibitors, such as feelings about a past experience or encounter or pre-existing dovish disposition. Yet, conflict avoidance is possible even in the absence of such internal guardrails against destructive responses to threat. This comparative qualitative study of two similarly structured communities in Jos, Nigeria’s ethnic conflict hotbed, reveals that while perceived threat may create aggressive dispositions, as established in extant scholarship on intergroup conflict, conflict avoidance remains possible in the absence of both internal inhibitors and external coercion. The compared Jos communities, Angwan Doki and Dadin Kowa, are similar in terms of widespread fear of the outgroup and significant willingness to respond aggressively to threat. Yet, conflict avoidance was possible in the latter because its community leaders both wittingly and unwittingly confronted the underlying threat that drove people’s violent dispositions. Past variability analyses omit this dynamic of external malleability of perceived threat outcomes – aggression and violence. Generally, the findings show that low-tech threat management interventions are more effective at mitigating intergroup conflict in weak states than interventions that seek to forcefully suppress the threat.","PeriodicalId":46301,"journal":{"name":"Conflict Security & Development","volume":"31 1","pages":"143 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78065298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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(Re)thinking homegrown peace mechanisms for the resolution of conflicts in Northern Ghana (重新)思考解决加纳北部冲突的本土和平机制

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Conflict Security & Development Pub Date : 2022-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2022.2059934

Abdul Karim Issifu, K. Bukari

{"title":"(Re)thinking homegrown peace mechanisms for the resolution of conflicts in Northern Ghana","authors":"Abdul Karim Issifu, K. Bukari","doi":"10.1080/14678802.2022.2059934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2022.2059934","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The protracted chieftaincy conflict in Dagbon in the Northern Region of Ghana was recently resolved through an interplay of formal and informal resolution mechanisms, where the latter dominated the peace-making process with home-grown peace mechanisms. In the past, the state through formal liberal peace mechanisms like the law courts, committees and commissions of inquiry, interventions by NGOs/CSOs and peacekeeping operations failed to resolve the conflict. However, through the state support in the use of indigenous peace mechanisms by a Committee of Eminent Chiefs (CEC), a resolution of the conflict was made possible by the adoption of this hybrid dispute resolution mechanism. This article examines how the Dagbon conflict was resolved using a home-grown peace mechanism, the eminent peace approach. Drawing on related secondary data, we argue that empowering traditional leaders and strengthening home-grown conflict resolution mechanisms can play a pivotal role in resolving non-state conflicts. This article contributes to the hybrid peace literature that centres around the call for local-state collaboration in conflict resolution.","PeriodicalId":46301,"journal":{"name":"Conflict Security & Development","volume":"27 1","pages":"221 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87472172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Moral hazard in Sudan’s ‘Two Areas’ – humanitarianism that perpetuates civil war 苏丹“两个地区”的道德风险——使内战持续的人道主义

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Conflict Security & Development Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2022.2034367

A. Kuperman

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