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Understanding Collective Political Violence

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Yvan Guichaoua

    1. University of East Anglia, UK

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Part of the book series: Conflict, Inequality and Ethnicity (CoIE)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Individual Drivers of Collective Violence and the Dynamics of Armed Groups

    1. Introduction: Individual Drivers of Collective Violence and the Dynamics of Armed Groups

      • Yvan Guichaoua
      Pages 1-18

  3. Joining Insurgencies: Contexts, Beliefs and Agency

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Militarized Youth in Western Côte d’Ivoire: Who Are They? Why Did They Fight?

      • Magali Chelpi-den Hamer
      Pages 21-45

    3. Political Cultures and Tuareg Mobilizations: Rebels of Niger, from Kaocen to the Mouvement des Nigériens pour la Justice

      • Frédéric Deycard
      Pages 46-64

    4. The Mobilization of Children: What’s the Difference?

      • Jason Hart
      Pages 65-83

    5. Gendered Patterns of Mobilization and Recruitment for Political Violence, Experiences from Three Latin American Countries

      • Luisa Maria Dietrich Ortega
      Pages 84-104

    6. Have Gun, Will Travel: Interpreting the Trajectories of Female Irregular Combatants

      • Laurent Gayer
      Pages 105-123

    7. Engendering Armed Militancy in Kashmir: Women as Perpetrators of Violence

      • Seema Shekhawat
      Pages 124-142

    8. Recruitment into Armed Groups in Colombia: A Survey of Demobilized Fighters

      • Ana M. Arjona, Stathis N. Kalyvas
      Pages 143-171

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 277-291
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Understanding Collective Political Violence offers a unique view on contemporary processes of violent political mobilization across continents: Africa, Latin America, South East Asia and the Middle East. It pays particular attention to unconventional combatants such as women or children and details the drivers of their violent engagement.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of East Anglia, UK

    Yvan Guichaoua

About the editor

ANA M. ARJONA Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University, USA MAGALI CHELPI-DEN HAMER Research Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands FRÉDÉRIC DEYCARD Completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at the Centre of Africa Studies, University of Bordeaux, France LUISA MARIA DIETRICH ORTEGA Doctorate Candidate in Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria LAURENT GAYER Research Fellow at the French National Centre of Academic Research (CNRS), currently posted at the Centre of Humanities (CSH), Delhi, India KONE GNANGADJOMON Doctoral Student in Sociology at the University of Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire, and Research Associate at the Swiss Centre of Academic Research in Côte d'Ivoire (CSRS-CI) FRANCISCO GUTIERREZ SANIN Researcher at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the National University of Colombia, USA JASON HART Lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK STATHIS KALYVAS Arnold Wofers Professor of Political Science at Yale University, USA SEEMA SHEKHAWAT Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Mumbai, India FRANCES STEWART Emeritus Professor of Development Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at the University of Oxford, UK.

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