Armed groups' modes of local engagement and post-conflict (in)stability: Insights from the Ethiopian and Somali civil wars

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Armed groups' modes of local engagement and post-conflict (in)stability: Insights from the Ethiopian and Somali civil wars
المؤلفون: Gassier, Marine
بيانات النشر: The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: EconStor (German National Library of Economics, ZBW)
مصطلحات موضوعية: ddc:330, conflict recurrence, post-war regimes, armed groups, Ethiopia, Somalia, comparative study
الوصف: What distinguishes post-war governments that succeed in establishing a stable political order and prevent recurring conflict from those that do not? This comparative study considers the specific threats that typically lead to the collapse of the post-conflict political order to offer new hypotheses on the conditions that affect post-war governments' ability to sustainably restore stability. The threats considered include (i) fragmentation of the main actors in the conflict, (ii) inadequate demobilization, and (iii) enduring dependence of the post-war government on local brokers. Post-war regimes are more vulnerable to such risks after wars in which the dominant armed groups have established themselves by co-opting local power structures and drawing on existing socio-political networks, as this process redistributes power from the central to the local level. Empirically, this paper uses a novel dataset documenting the practices through which rebel groups may alter local power structures to highlight the connection between this wartime process of transformation and patterns of conflict recurrence. In addition, it contrasts the transition of the Tigray People's Liberation Front from rebellion to government in Ethiopia in the 1990s with the trajectory of the armed movements in Somalia that also overthrew the incumbent military regime but then failed to establish a viable state.
نوع الوثيقة: report
اللغة: English
ردمك: 978-92-9267-325-3
92-9267-325-4
Relation: Series: WIDER Working Paper; No. 2023/17; urn:isbn:978-92-9267-325-3; gbv-ppn:1837191603; http://hdl.handle.net/10419/283713; RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2023-17
DOI: 10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2023/325-3
الاتاحة: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/283713
https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2023/325-3
Rights: https://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.9C8B824C
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
ردمك:9789292673253
9292673254
DOI:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2023/325-3