Rivalry and revenge: the politics of violence during civil war

What explains violence against civilians in civil wars? Why do groups kill civilians in areas where they have full military control and their rivals have no military presence? This innovative book connects pre-war politics to patterns of violence during civil war. It argues that both local political...

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Main Author: Balcells, Laia 1980- (Author)
Format: Thesis Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2017
Series:Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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Summary:What explains violence against civilians in civil wars? Why do groups kill civilians in areas where they have full military control and their rivals have no military presence? This innovative book connects pre-war politics to patterns of violence during civil war. It argues that both local political rivalry and local revenge account for violence against civilians. Armed groups perpetrate direct violence jointly with local civilians, who collaborate when violence can help them gain or consolidate local political control. As civil war continues, revenge motives also come into play, leading to spirals of violence at a local level. In an important contribution to the study of the Spanish Civil War, Balcells combines statistical analyses with ethnographic and qualitative research to provide new insights to scholars and academic researchers with an interest in civil war, politics and conflict processes. Rivalry and Revenge is theoretically and empirically rich, and it offers a theory and method generalizable to a wide set of cases
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 May 2017)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 263 Seiten) Diagramme
ISBN:9781316392737
DOI:10.1017/9781316392737

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