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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: Individual Drivers of Collective Violence and the Dynamics of Armed Groups
Pages 1-18
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Militarized Youth in Western Côte d’Ivoire: Who Are They? Why Did They Fight?
Pages 21-45
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Political Cultures and Tuareg Mobilizations: Rebels of Niger, from Kaocen to the Mouvement des Nigériens pour la Justice
Pages 46-64
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The Mobilization of Children: What’s the Difference?
Pages 65-83
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Gendered Patterns of Mobilization and Recruitment for Political Violence, Experiences from Three Latin American Countries
Pages 84-104
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Understanding Collective Political Violence
- Editors
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- Y. Guichaoua
- Series Title
- Conflict, Inequality and Ethnicity
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-34831-8
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230348318
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-28546-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-33060-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 291
- Topics
