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The (in)effectiveness of torture for combating insurgency

Sullivan, Christopher Michael - In: Journal of Peace Research 51 (2014) 3, pp. 388-404

It is commonly believed that torture is an effective tool for combating an insurgent threat. Yet while torture is practiced in nearly all counterinsurgency campaigns, the evidence documenting tortureâ€™s effects remains severely limited. This study provides the first micro-level statistical...

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Disaggregating actors in intranational conflict

Shellman, Stephen M.; Hatfield, Clare; Mills, Maggie J. - In: Journal of Peace Research 47 (2010) 1, pp. 83-90

While some of the intrastate war literature calls for the disaggregation of civil conflict, most of those studies focus on the geography of civil conflict failing to take into account the various actors involved in such conflicts. This study addresses the multi-actor nature of civil conflict by...

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Rebel capability and strategic violence against civilians

Wood, Reed M - In: Journal of Peace Research 47 (2010) 5, pp. 601-614

This article explores the strategic motivations for insurgent violence against civilians. It argues that violence is a function of insurgent capacity and views violence and security as selective benefits that insurgents manipulate to encourage support. Weak insurgent groups facing collective...

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Enemies with benefits? Violent rivalry and terrorist group longevity

Phillips, Brian J - In: Journal of Peace Research 52 (2015) 1, pp. 62-75

Terrorist organizations often attack each other, but we know little about how this affects the involved groups. Some states encourage or turn a blind eye toward terrorist group interorganizational violence, hoping that it destroys at least one of the groups involved. This article argues that...

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Denial and punishment in the North Caucasus

Toft, Monica Duffy; Zhukov, Yuri M - In: Journal of Peace Research 49 (2012) 6, pp. 785-800

inflammatory counter-insurgency option for Russia. For it to succeed, Russia should physically isolate centers of insurgent …

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Unpacking nonviolent campaigns

Chenoweth, Erica; Lewis, Orion A - In: Journal of Peace Research 50 (2013) 3, pp. 415-423

Recent studies indicate that strategic nonviolent campaigns have been more successful over time in achieving their political objectives than violent insurgencies. But additional research has been limited by a lack of time-series data on nonviolent and violent campaigns, as well as a lack of more...

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Understanding nonviolent resistance

Chenoweth, Erica; Cunningham, Kathleen Gallagher - In: Journal of Peace Research 50 (2013) 3, pp. 271-276

The events of the Arab Spring of 2011 have made clear the importance and potential efficacy of nonviolent resistance, as well as the fieldâ€™s inability to explain the onset and outcome of major nonviolent uprisings. Until recently, conflict scholars have largely ignored nonviolent...

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â€˜An eye for an eye, a tooth for a toothâ€™: Political violence and counter-insurgency in Egypt

Fielding, David; Shortland, Anja - In: Journal of Peace Research 47 (2010) 4, pp. 433-447

. Attention is focused on the interaction between politically motivated attacks by Islamists and the counter-insurgency measures … used by the Egyptian government. Both insurgency and counter-insurgency are multidimensional. Insurgency includes attacks … on tourists, on Egyptian civilians and on security forces. Counter-insurgency includes arrests and attacks on militants …

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Armed intervention and civilian victimization in intrastate conflicts

Wood, Reed M; Kathman, Jacob D; Gent, Stephen E - In: Journal of Peace Research 49 (2012) 5, pp. 647-660

Research has begun to examine the relationship between changes in the conflict environment and levels of civilian victimization. We extend this work by examining the effect of external armed intervention on the decisions of governments and insurgent organizations to victimize civilians during...

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Seedbeds of insurgency

Jenkins, J Craig; Maher, Thomas V; Fahrer, Chuck - In: Journal of Peace Research 51 (2014) 4, pp. 470-486

Studies of insurgency and collective action are divided between structural and dynamic explanations. Structural … theories address the presence of insurgency while dynamic theories focus on the frequency of insurgent actions. Yet prior … aspects of insurgency. This study addresses this division by using zero-inflated negative binomial regression to examine in a …

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