Civil WarsPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2092687
Helle Harnisch
{"title":"”The Third Time Janus Died”: Resilience and Dependencies In Coping With Adversity During And After Civil War In Northern Uganda","authors":"Helle Harnisch","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2092687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2092687","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article critically explores how local notions of coping and resilience among former forcibly recruited children and youth in the war-affected Acholi region resonate with established conceptualisations of resilience in resilience research that primarily originate from a US context. Based on 12 months of fieldwork in urban and rural Acholi contexts, the analysis shows how poverty, corruption, and the presence of international humanitarian organisations in the urban context, create dependencies that diminish community resilience in the Acholi region. The findings call for optimising the balance between emic and etic perspectives in resilience studies as well as in humanitarian interventions.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"280 - 304"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48106181","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 : 2022-06-06DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2075248
Ilmari Käihkö
{"title":"Ambiguity and Methodological Transparency in the Study of Civil War: An Answer to Thémner’s ‘Lingering Command Structures’ in Liberia","authors":"Ilmari Käihkö","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2075248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2075248","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Researchers who study civil wars and other armed conflicts are bound to face ambiguities. This article continues the discussion about research brokers in conflict zones that started in a 2019 special issue of Civil Wars and scrutinises the finding that Liberian wartime command structures continue to linger in informal guises long to the post-conflict. Absent transparent acknowledging of the ambiguities it glosses over, past scholarship risks a far too neat story that imbues arguments with untested assumptions. The result neither captures the complexity of contemporary realities of Liberian former combatants nor helps Liberia to move forward from its difficult past.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"524 - 534"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44465969","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 : 2022-05-29DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2075247
Anders Themnér
{"title":"A Response to Ilmari Käihkö’s “On Brokers, Commodification of Information and Liberian Former Combatants”","authors":"Anders Themnér","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2075247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2075247","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In a recent article in Civil Wars, Ilmari Käihkö criticizes my research approach of collaborating with ex-commanders to study their own ex-command structures. While I welcome a discussion concerning the pros and cons of employing this approach, it must be based on a correct representation of the methods that I have used. Käihkö does not do this in his article, and he makes a number of false statements about my research. My ambition with this paper is to set the record straight and pave the way for a more productive discussion about how to best study ex-command structures.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"535 - 546"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48473433","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 : 2022-02-17DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2031440
E. Storer, Innocent Anguyo, Anthony Odda
{"title":"“One Man’s Meat Is Another Man’s Poison”: Marungi and Realities of Resilience in North West Uganda","authors":"E. Storer, Innocent Anguyo, Anthony Odda","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2031440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2031440","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Approaches to resilience in post-war contexts prioritise systems-based thinking above everyday realities. This paper explores reconstruction through marungi (khat) in North-West Uganda. Presenting ethnographic evidence, we chart connections between marungi and resilience among growers, traders and “eaters”. Firstly, we argue for a consideration of the actual resources through which individuals and households build capacity to withstand shocks following war. Secondly, we explore inequities within production lines and the effects of criminalising khat, to demonstrate trade-offs within prospects for post-war prosperity. Ultimately, we argue for process-based analyses of how resilience is negotiated in contingent circumstances.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"204 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42907814","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 : 2022-01-11DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2015216
Francis Abonga, Charlotte R. Brown
{"title":"Restoration and Renewal Through Sport: Gendered Experiences of Resilience for War-Affected Youth in Northern Uganda","authors":"Francis Abonga, Charlotte R. Brown","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2015216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2015216","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Building on the proposal for a ‘culturally sensitive’ framework of resilience, this article explores the construction of resilience at an individual and community level. Through the lens of sport, we explore the relational nature of resilience and its relationship to ideas of morality and community well-being. Using interviews and focus groups conducted across northern Uganda 2018–2020, we engage youth perspectives on resilience or restoration (roco). We emphasise the gendered dimensions that shape different stakeholder’s understandings of the concept and that, in this context, the pursuit of a community-affirmed vision of resilience or good surroundings (piny maber) reinforces pre-existing inequalities.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"230 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43834958","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 : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2015196
Isaac Waanzi Hillary, Bruno Braak
{"title":"‘When the World Turns Upside Down, Live Like a Bat!’ Idioms of Suffering, Coping, and Resilience Among Elderly Female Zande Refugees in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, Uganda (2019–20)","authors":"Isaac Waanzi Hillary, Bruno Braak","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2015196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2015196","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT ‘Resilience’ is trending in development theory and practice, where it is often measured using countable socio-economic outcomes. This paper draws on ethnographic research with South Sudanese Zande refugees in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, Uganda, to show a different and often overlooked perspective; that of elderly refugee women. Having lived through decades of war and displacement, these women have developed a rich body of knowledge about suffering, coping, and resilience. Mixing idioms, folktales, and anecdotes, they teach youth not to focus on outcomes or ‘big dreams’, but on a stoic acceptance of loss and perpetual precarity. They advise actions like farming, childcare, and faith. Even so, suffering and coping are socially conditioned and policed, and the intimate circle harbours both protection and dangers, like witchcraft. The women’s accounts contrast bleakly with up-beat neoliberal developmentalism which sees cash-infused ‘resilience’ as the key to refugees’ self-reliant futures.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"159 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47259021","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 : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2031648
Anders Themnér
{"title":"On Brokers, Biases and Leaving the Veranda: Working with Research Brokers in Political Science Based Field Research","authors":"Anders Themnér","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2031648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2031648","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper I critically discuss the pros and cons of working with research brokers from a political science perspective. I do this by sharing my experiences of collaborating with two types of local “fixers” – cultural and communal brokers. I argue that even if similar approaches risk introducing a number of broker-induced biases, countermeasures can be taken to mitigate their effect: e.g. continuous triangulation, interviewing “sleepers” and asking in-depth questions to exclude interviewees who misrepresent themselves. However, researchers must be aware that working with multiple brokers can also generate methodological and ethical challenges that need to be taken into consideration.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"117 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46539586","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 : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2066308
James Worrall, A. Waterman
{"title":"A New Era for Civil Wars: An Editorial Vision","authors":"James Worrall, A. Waterman","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2066308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2066308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"1 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45921500","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 : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2063971
A. Knuppe
{"title":"Surviving the War in Syria: Survival Strategies in a Time of Conflict","authors":"A. Knuppe","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2063971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2063971","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"140 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47459473","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 : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2022.2015194
Moran Stern
{"title":"Factionalisation from Below: The Case of Palestinian Fatah","authors":"Moran Stern","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2022.2015194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2015194","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the role of junior cadres in rebel group fragmentation. I argue that in a centralised rebel group factions will emerge when leaders block junior cadres’ access to senior decision-making bodies. Junior cadres who want to influence the organisation’s politics therefore face a choice between remaining within the rebel group and exiting it. Factionalising is a way to redress grievances by aggrieved junior cadres who deem peaceful mechanisms for upward mobility ineffective. Using original datasets and personal interviews, I find strong evidence supporting my argument in the case of Palestinian Fatah.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":"24 1","pages":"27 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59892866","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}