Organized Violence after Civil War

The Geography of Recruitment in Latin America

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvSarah Zukerman Daly,Indiana) Daly, Sarah Zukerman (University of Notre Dame

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Nearly half of all countries emerging from civil conflict relapse into war within a few years of signing a peace agreement. The postwar trajectories of armed groups vary from organizational cohesion to dissolution, demilitarization to remilitarization. In Organized Violence after Civil War, Daly analyzes evidence from thirty-seven militia groups in Colombia, demonstrating that the primary driving force behind these changes is the variation in recruitment patterns within, and between, the warring groups. She documents the transition from war to peace through interviews with militia commanders, combatants and victims. Using rich ex-combatant survey data and geo-coded information on violence over fifty years of war, Daly explains the dynamics inside armed organizations and the strategic interactions among them. She also shows how the theory may be used beyond Colombia, both within the region of Latin America and across the rest of the world.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-06-22
Mått150 x 230 x 25 mm
Vikt520 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Antal sidor344
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107566835

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Sarah Zukerman Daly joined the University of Notre Dame faculty in 2013 as Assistant Professor in Political Science after receiving her Ph.D. in the subject from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her doctoral dissertation received the 2011 Lucian Pye Award for the Best Dissertation in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests lie in the fields of civil war, peace processes, international security, and ethnic politics with a regional focus on Latin America. Daly has served as a fellow in the Political Science Department and at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, California, at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, New York, and at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, Massachusetts.

1. Introduction - a farewell to arms?; 2. Theory of the postwar trajectories of armed organizations; 3. Violence and peace in Colombia; 4. Geography of recruitment and postwar organizational capacity; 5. Strategic interactions between armed groups and remilitarization; 6. The path to demilitarization: configuration of local militias in Antioquia; 7. Remilitarization, strong and weak: local and non-local militias in Catatumbo and Urabá/Córdoba; 8. Beyond Colombia: transitions from war to peace in comparative perspective; 9. Conclusion.

'Sarah Zukerman Daly argues that organizational characteristics of armed groups in Colombia strongly affect whether they remilitarize after a peace agreement. Their extensive ties enable members of local groups to remilitarize, but members of non-local groups disperse and lose this capacity. Networks and geography are more important than access to weapons, which is almost universal. Daly's extraordinary fieldwork with extremely violent former group members provides convincing quantitative and qualitative support for this important argument. Organized Violence after Civil War is an extraordinary work of political science.' Robert O. Keohane, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University