Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2177054
Katariina Mustasilta, Isak Svensson
{"title":"Divided We Fall: Ethnic Cleavages, Movement Cohesion, and the Risk of Escalation to Civil War in Non-Violent Uprisings","authors":"Katariina Mustasilta, Isak Svensson","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2177054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2177054","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Why do some non-violent uprisings escalate into armed violence while others do not? We suggest that horizontal polarisation contributes to the escalation of non-violent campaigns. We examine the effect of ethnic cleavages between the campaign and its opponent and movement cohesion as explanatory factors for escalation into civil war and non-state violence. Statistical analysis of all major non-violent campaigns (1970–2014) shows that non-violent conflicts with ethnic cleavages have a higher risk of escalating into armed violence in particular, when the conflict takes place over governmental aims. The results also indicate that movement cohesion alleviates the risk of armed escalation.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"25 1","pages":"103 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43283803","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 : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2167043
F. H. Wong
{"title":"Guerrilla Protest: Understanding Social Movements from a Civil War Framework with the Case of Hong Kong 2019","authors":"F. H. Wong","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2167043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2167043","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Protests could exhibit properties of an asymmetrical, nonconventional war when paramilitary police utilise counterinsurgency measures and decentralised protestors adopt guerrilla tactics. This study examines the structural characteristics of the 2019 Hong Kong protests and the organisation of the police and protestors. Strategic challenges seen in civil wars emerged. Blurred frontlines and identification problems escalated violence for collaboration and control. The civil war theoretical framework explains the role of civilians, the logic of violence, and the realignment of social and economic life in prolonged protests. The resemblance of society at civil war suggests civilians were forced to take sides and participate.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"25 1","pages":"4 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46006909","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 : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2177055
Cheng Xu
{"title":"Cherry-Picking Tradition and Selective Modernisation: The Insurgency of the Indigenous Cordillerans of the Philippines","authors":"Cheng Xu","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2177055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2177055","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Conventional peacebuilding literature posits strong state capacity or empowerment of local knowledge as potential mechanisms for conflict resolution. Using process-tracing and ethnography, I show that an alternate pathway to peace lies in a dialectical approach by examining the armed conflict between indigenous Igorot communities against the Philippine state. When indigenous peoples strategically modernise by ‘cherry-picking’ and adapting traditions, they create opportunities to manoeuvre around and access state power. Exploiting the state’s own preconceived notions of indigeneity, Igorot communities defined the terms of their autonomy. This study introduces the understanding that statebuilding and indigenisation as hybrid processes for peacebuilding.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"25 1","pages":"77 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44295489","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 : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2167044
Monica Carrer
{"title":"The Social Construction of Grievance and Everyday Responses to Violent Conflict: Insights from the Maoist Conflict in West Bengal, India","authors":"Monica Carrer","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2167044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2167044","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While in the civil wars literature grievance is often considered as a cause of violent conflict, this paper investigates how grievances are meaningful to the people who experience violence, and how these meanings are expressed in everyday actions. Through the case of the Maoist conflict in India, in this paper I explore how grievance is socially constructed and related to action according to local people’s own narratives. This study reveals that perceptions of grievance are related not only to violent actions, but also to everyday strategies to resist violence and achieve durable peace and social change at the local level.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"25 1","pages":"29 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49261068","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 : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2177053
Alexander Thurston
{"title":"Legislative Elections Amid Civil Wars: Micro-Case Studies from Mali","authors":"Alexander Thurston","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2177053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2177053","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper investigates ruling parties’ calculations in wartime legislative elections. The paper argues that ruling parties’ strategies are shaped by opportunity structures and the party’s desire to protect party insiders, rather than simply by considerations about ‘government-held’ or ‘rebel-held’ territory. Ruling parties may adopt several strategies: (1) ceding seats to popular opposition candidates, even in government-controlled territory; (2) allowing rebels to run on the ruling party’s ticket; and (3) blatant electoral manipulation. Ruling parties may miscalculate, including about how much manipulation the population will countenance. The paper examines these dynamics through a case study of Mali’s 2020 legislative elections.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"25 1","pages":"52 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45243341","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 : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2170705
Daniel Rincón Machón
{"title":"Governing for Revolution: Social Transformation in Civil War","authors":"Daniel Rincón Machón","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2170705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2170705","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"25 1","pages":"137 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49589189","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 : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2139093
Mustafa Kirisci, Ibrahim Kocaman
{"title":"What Restrains Military from Targeting Civilians in Civil Wars?","authors":"Mustafa Kirisci, Ibrahim Kocaman","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2139093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2139093","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT What explains the role of restraints on military for limiting victimisation of civilians? We find that a higher number of officers trained on counterinsurgency are associated with a lower number of civilians killed by government forces in civil wars. We also find that the number of civilians killed by government forces reduces as the degree of military involvement in politics reduces, and as the judiciary becomes independent. These results suggest that if the goal is to curb indiscriminate civilian killings, better training in counterinsurgency, the existence of judicial checks, and lowering military influence in politics are practical policy tools.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"411 - 444"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44844728","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 : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2122805
Caleb Lucas, B. Appel, A. Prorok
{"title":"Not Too Distant: Grievance, Opportunity, and the Onset of Civil War","authors":"Caleb Lucas, B. Appel, A. Prorok","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2122805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2122805","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Grievance and opportunity theories dominate research on the causes of civil war. However, theoretical and empirical problems limit their ability to explain variation in conflict onset. We argue that these problems partly stem from treating them as largely independent explanations. We integrate grievance and opportunity into a unified theory and argue that they are complements that jointly predict conflict. We apply insights from the interstate war literature to develop and test a theory of conflict onset that argues that the probability of civil war increases as the disparity between relative power and the status quo distribution of benefits increases.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"497 - 523"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46334516","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 : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2125722
H. Albrecht
{"title":"Saints and Warriors: Strategic Choice in Rebel Recruitment in the Syrian Civil War","authors":"H. Albrecht","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2125722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2125722","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores how rebel groups come into being and how they sustain their activities. Its core premise is that the strategies used in rebel recruitment are crucial for such organisations. Knowing how rebel groups attract members will tell us why they are strong and, by extension, who is getting the upper hand in violent domestic conflicts. Drawing on empirical findings from the Syrian civil war, the article unpacks strategic choices in rebel recruitment: successful rebel groups benefit from the recruitment of combat-ready fighters (warriors) at the time of their inception and of high-commitment rebels (saints) amid sustained insurgent activities.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"387 - 410"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44238374","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}