State of Rebellion

Louisa Lombard is an assistant professor of anthropology at Yale University. Previously she held a Ciriacy-Wantrup postdoctoral fellowship in natural resource economics at the University of California at Berkeley. She has published widely on politics and conflict in Central Africa. In addition to her academic research, she has worked in the Central African Republic as a field consultant to several international organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Small Arms Survey, Refugees International, and the World Bank. Her previous books include Making Sense of the Central African Republic, co-edited with Tatiana Carayannis (Zed Books, 2015).

• Introduction1. Conflict and the State in the Peace-Kept World2. The Nativeness of ‘Foreign’ Violence3. Mobility as Power4. Long and Short Histories of Rebellion5. DDR and the Frustration of Desires for Entitlement6. War as the Violence of the Pack7. World Champion of PeacekeepingConclusion

A must-read for comparativists and IR scholars interested in peacebuilding, the state, and African politics, as well as for policy makers involved with these issues in the CAR and beyond.'