Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2249326
Jacqui Cho, Dana M. Landau
{"title":"In Search of the Golden Formula: Trends in Peace Mediation Research and Practice","authors":"Jacqui Cho, Dana M. Landau","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2249326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2249326","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines how the research on, and the practice of, peace mediation has evolved in the past 25 years, with a particular focus on the hypothesised factors that explain mediation ‘success’ and argues for an explicit re-centring of the political in peacemaking. The analysis highlights how research on peacemaking has seen a growth of quantitative studies, while at the same time the practice field of peace mediation has been characterised by a process of professionalisation. We argue that in parallel to these two trends, there has been a shift away from focusing on exogeneous factors, such as those pertaining to the conflict context, to explain ‘success’ or ‘failure’ towards those endogenous to the peace process. A rapidly growing literature on elements of peace process design ranging from inclusivity, mediator characteristics, mediation styles, as well as the substance of negotiated agreements has both informed and been informed by developments in the practitioner community of mediation. These mutually reinforcing trends, while enriching the field, risk portraying mediation as a technical and de-politicised exercise and create inflated expectations of the role and capacity of mediators. We illustrate these trends with a discussion of the case of UN peacemaking in Yemen.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363707","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}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2250699
Corinna Jentzsch, Abbey Steele
{"title":"Social Control in Civil Wars","authors":"Corinna Jentzsch, Abbey Steele","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2250699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2250699","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The primacy of territorial control in theories of civil war has advanced our understanding of war dynamics, most notably lethal violence, but has hindered our understanding of the distinct ways in which armed groups seek control over people. We propose to complement territorial control by separately conceptualising social control, which we define as the extent to which armed groups have access to people and their resources. Access to people requires different tactics compared to access to territory, because people are mobile. We develop a framework in which state and non-state armed groups choose whether to prioritise territorial or social control first in order to gain sovereignty, which requires both territorial and social control. Alternatively, armed groups choose to pursue territorial control or social control only, resulting in corridors or social networks, respectively. We illustrate the advantages of the framework by showing how it allows us to analyse armed groups’ tactics to control access to people, to connect research agendas on armed group violence, governance, and civilian displacement, and to better conceptualise armed group power and strength.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363909","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}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2250274
Megan A. Stewart
{"title":"One Perspective on the Evolution of Civil Wars Research","authors":"Megan A. Stewart","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2250274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2250274","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay presents a perspective on the intellectual history and development of the field of civil wars. It argues that scholarship on civil wars has its origins in research on revolution and contentious politics. Over time, work on civil wars grew to become its own distinct research programme. The evolution of this programme has been characterised by three broad trends: conceptual and measurement refinement, a search for the optimal unit of analysis, and a reimagining of what is political in the context of civil wars. The intersection of these trends – which measures, assumptions, units, and concepts – tended to produce intellectual traditions within the civil wars field. The author contextualises herself within these traditions, then presents the promises and pitfalls of these underlying trends in the field for future research.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364075","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}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2249325
Hilary Matfess
{"title":"New Frontiers in Rebel Socialisation: Considering Care and Marriage","authors":"Hilary Matfess","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2249325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2249325","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Non-state armed groups confront myriad challenges, but perhaps primary among them is the issue of how to transform civilians into rebels. The study of socialisation in non-state armed groups has traced the various strategies that rebels have adopted to teach rebels what they are fighting for, their position within the organisation and what behaviour is expected of them. The effects of rebel socialisation do not only affect the dynamics of how war is fought but may also extend well-past the end of the war, influencing possessive and social networks. While early studies in this field emphasise top-down (or vertical) processes and the use of violence as a socialisation mechanism, recent studies address quotidian and horizontal socialisation. This article will discuss how our understanding of rebel socialisation processes has developed over time. I introduce a two-by-two framework to understand how the process of socialisation (horizontal or vertical) and tactics used (violent or non-violent) produce unique forms of rebel socialisation. In so doing, this paper highlights future areas of study, particularly on the relatively under-researched area of non-violent, horizontal socialisation and on vertically-ordained forms of horizontal socialisation. In this article, I reiterate the call for greater attention to ‘love and care’ in security studies and offer marriage as an important, but under-appreciated, venue for rebel socialisation as a proof of concept of how taking care as a form of socialisation seriously can improve our understanding of the dynamics of rebellion and rebel experiences.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364272","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}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2253047
Stéphanie Perazzone
{"title":"Ending Global Violence Through Radical Feminist Theory: The Teachings of bell hooks on Power and Domination","authors":"Stéphanie Perazzone","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2253047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2253047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363663","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}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2255401
Jonathan Fisher, Paul Jackson
{"title":"Civil Wars and Civil Wars 2017–2021: A Reflection","authors":"Jonathan Fisher, Paul Jackson","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2255401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2255401","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364310","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}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2253044
Nicholas Barnes
{"title":"The Enduring Influence of The Logic of Violence in Civil War","authors":"Nicholas Barnes","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2253044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2253044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363838","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}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2254988
Andrew Shaver, Hannah Kazis-Taylor, Claudia Loomis, Mia Bartschi, Paul Patterson, Adrian Vera, Kevin Abad, Saher Alqarwani, Clay Bell, Sebastian Bock, Kieran Cabezas, Heidi Felix, Jennifer Gonzalez, Christopher Hoeft, Aileen Ibarra Martinez, Kai Keltner, Jessica Moroyoqui, Kieko Paman, Ethan Ramirez, Priscilla Reis, Juan Jose Rodriguez, Jazmin Santos-Perez, Katha Komal Sikka, Arjan Singh, Cassidy Tao, Richard Tirado, Aishvari Trivedi, Lillian Xu, Margaret You, Meriam Eskander
{"title":"Expanding the Coverage of Conflict Event Datasets: Three Proofs of Concept","authors":"Andrew Shaver, Hannah Kazis-Taylor, Claudia Loomis, Mia Bartschi, Paul Patterson, Adrian Vera, Kevin Abad, Saher Alqarwani, Clay Bell, Sebastian Bock, Kieran Cabezas, Heidi Felix, Jennifer Gonzalez, Christopher Hoeft, Aileen Ibarra Martinez, Kai Keltner, Jessica Moroyoqui, Kieko Paman, Ethan Ramirez, Priscilla Reis, Juan Jose Rodriguez, Jazmin Santos-Perez, Katha Komal Sikka, Arjan Singh, Cassidy Tao, Richard Tirado, Aishvari Trivedi, Lillian Xu, Margaret You, Meriam Eskander","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2254988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2254988","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Many contemporary studies on political violence/social unrest rely on conflict event datasets derived primarily from major international/national news reports. Yet, a large body of research identifies systematic patterns of ‘missingness’ in these data, calling into question statistical results drawn from them. In this project, we explore three specific opportunities for additional data collection to help recover systematically excluded events and to potentially assist in addressing resulting bias. We find that all three approaches result in additional and often systematically different material than that reported in news-based datasets, and we reflect on the advantages and drawbacks of these approaches.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364148","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}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2250193
Edward Newman
{"title":"Civil Wars: Towards an Evolution of a Field, 2010-2016","authors":"Edward Newman","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2250193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2250193","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363684","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}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2255427
James Worrall, Alex Waterman
{"title":"Civil Wars at 25: Introduction to the Silver Anniversary Special Issue","authors":"James Worrall, Alex Waterman","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2255427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2255427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364329","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}