Corinna Jentzsch
Description
Why do communities form militias to defend themselves against violence during civil war? Using original interviews with former combatants and civilian
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s and archival material from extensive fieldwork in Mozambique, Corinna Jentzsch's Violent Resistance explains the timing, location and process through which communities form militias. Jentzsch shows that local military stalemates characterized by ongoing violence allow civilians to form militias that fight alongside the government against rebels. Militias spread only to communities in which elites are relatively unified, preventing elites from coopting militias for private gains. Crucially, militias that build on preexisting social conventions are able to resonate with the people and empower them to regain agency over their lives. Jentzsch's innovative study brings conceptual clarity to the militia phenomenon and helps us understand how wartime civilian agency, violent resistance, and the rise of third actors beyond governments and rebels affect the dynamics of civil war, on the African continent and beyond. This title is available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Genres
Politics & Social Issues
Tags
Political Science
Reading Moods
Dark & Gritty
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Publishing Info
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Month-Year
Aug, 2024
ISBN
ISBN-13: 9781009514491
ISBN-10: 1009514490
Language
English
No. of Pages
244
Format
Paperback
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