Civil WarsPub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2125718
Matthew F. Cancian, Diana B. Greenwald
{"title":"Infrastructure, Revenue, and Services: Non-State Governance in Iraq’s Disputed Territories","authors":"Matthew F. Cancian, Diana B. Greenwald","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2125718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2125718","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While states and non-state armed groups often engage in militarised conflict over contested territory, at other times they co-govern in a tenuous equilibrium. Using a survey of over 1,600 Kurdish soldiers (Peshmerga) and elite interviews, we investigate local variation in shared governance in one such context – the disputed territories of northern Iraq. Despite the area being under Kurdish military control, the Iraqi government continued to provide services in districts where it had pre-existing infrastructural capacity. However, in revenue-producing districts, Kurdish actors appropriated infrastructural power to provide services themselves. This illustrates that non-state governance strategies, and their outputs, can vary locally.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"445 - 496"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49454602","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 : 2022-09-23DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2119509
Oliver P. Richmond
{"title":"On the “Greats” and peace (part two): The internal and external challenges to the embryonic international peace architecture in modernity","authors":"Oliver P. Richmond","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2119509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2119509","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44393562","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 : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2119507
Charles T. Hunt
{"title":"‘To serve and protect’: The changing roles of police in the protection of civilians in UN peace operations","authors":"Charles T. Hunt","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2119507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2119507","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45802284","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 : 2022-09-13DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2119506
Sukanya Podder, K. Roy
{"title":"Use of force to protect civilians in United Nations peacekeeping: Military culture, organisational learning and troop reticence","authors":"Sukanya Podder, K. Roy","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2119506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2119506","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47064706","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 : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2092686
R. O’Byrne
{"title":"Resistant Resilience: Agency and Resilience Among Refugees Resisting Humanitarian Corruption in Uganda","authors":"R. O’Byrne","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2092686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2092686","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Resilience is a dominant humanitarian-development theme. Nonetheless, some humanitarian-development programmes have demonstrably negative impacts which encourage vulnerable people to actively resist these programmes. Based on 12 months ethnographic fieldwork in a Ugandan refugee settlement during 2017–18, this paper argues refugee residents articulated their refusal of humanitarian failure and corruption through active, largely non-political, resistance. I term the diverse strategies used ‘resistant resilience’, arguing that the agency central to these practices require that assumptions about resilience are reconsidered. I conclude that this refugee community’s most important resilience strategies were active resistance, demonstrating that resilience can be manifested through marginalised peoples’ desire to resist exploitation.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"328 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42475571","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 : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2101192
Roger Mac Ginty
{"title":"Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda","authors":"Roger Mac Ginty","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2101192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2101192","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"385 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47529825","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 : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2122917
J. Hopwood, R. O’Byrne
{"title":"Conceptual Resilience in the Language and Lives of Resilient People: Cases from Northern Uganda","authors":"J. Hopwood, R. O’Byrne","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2122917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2122917","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This special issue explores post-conflict recovery in northern Uganda from the perspective of survivors themselves. Normative notions of resilience are widely critiqued as reductive, depoliticising and simplistic. Although the papers here, based on ethnographic methodologies, are largely sympathetic to this understanding, they also suggest that consideration of resilience should not be abandoned. The papers offer insights into how communities’ experiences and strategies of resilience often diverge from the ambitions of international actors. They demonstrate that micro-level studies of real people’s experiences of post-conflict recovery allow space for wider comparative and theoretical insights to emerge.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"145 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45799925","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 : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2092685
L. Williams
{"title":"Building an Ecology of Resilience through Religious Practice and Community in Northern Uganda","authors":"L. Williams","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2092685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2092685","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork from 2015 to 2019, this paper explores resilience among evangelical Christians in rural northern Uganda after years of violent conflict. The paper argues that three aspects of evangelical life train and build resilience for congregation members: (1) individual and collective prayer; (2) social inclusion and resource sharing; (3) narrative practices of reframing the past and present. When these are continuously practiced within the evangelical group, these features form a kind of resilience which acts to manage the effects of violence. Thus, resilience is conceptualized as an adaptive process within an ecology of social and narrative practice.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"305 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42705557","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 : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2092688
Ponsiano Bimeny
{"title":"Problematic Ideological Humanitarianism: Generating More Resilient Markets but More Fragile Beneficiaries","authors":"Ponsiano Bimeny","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2092688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2092688","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper discusses circumstances under which post-conflict humanitarian-development interventions may post success despite exacerbating population’s vulnerability. It concerns Mercy Corps’ (MC) Revitalisation of Agricultural Incomes and New Markets (RAIN) project in Lamwo District, Northern Uganda. MC identified market access as key component of community resilience measuring it through technical feedback processes. In its own terms, RAIN has proved successful, and the market became robust. However, a less narrow evaluation revealed RAIN’s negative impact including diminished food security, increased child malnutrition, domestic and gender-based violence. On any rational understanding of resilience, interventions appeared to compromise rather than enhance population’s resilience.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"181 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47577637","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}