Bürgerkriege, die durch die Aneignung von Rohstoffen finanziert werden, sind in der Wissenschaft ausführlich erforscht. Fallstudien zu einzelnen Rebellengruppen, die deren spezifische (Konflikt-)Finanzierung gegenüberstellen, gibt es hingegen kaum. Mathis Balz vergleicht erstmals verschiedene...

Political leaders make policy choices which are often hard to explain via institutions. We use the behavior of Colombian paramilitary groups as an environment to study non-institutional sources of variation in how public good provision and violence are combined to control populations. We...

This contribution examines the role of occult imaginations in the struggle against perceived socio-economic marginalization by youth militias from the Ijaw ethnic group in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It argues that the asymmetric power between the federal government/transnational...

Colombian people’s positions regarding the granting of forgiveness to persons who have been more or less actively involved in the violence that ravaged the country during the past 60 years were examined. Four hundred lay people living in Bogota were presented with 48 concrete cases in which a...