Pub Date : 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2024.2390407
Kai M. Thaler, Antonia H. Juelich, Sean Paul Ashley
The complex nature of civil conflict makes it inherently difficult to study, which is exacerbated by the challenges of conducting field research in volatile conflict zones. How do these challenges ...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2024.2380268
Marika Theros
Corruption remains a persistent feature in most transitional and fragile countries, raising questions around the processes and outcomes of international development and economic reforms. In the cas...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-31DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2024.2382189
Niloufer Siddiqui, Megan Turnbull
Many approaches to and recommendations for ethical research assume a power dynamic between the researcher and the researched that favours the researcher. When study participants include political e...
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Pub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2024.2346086
Roshni Kapur
How can a country meaningfully commit to transitional justice interventions when ethnocracy and majoritarianism remain deeply entrenched in its political, legal and constitutional structures? Despi...
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Pub Date : 2024-05-13DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2024.2334832
Inga Kristina Trauthig
As the debate on how harmful online content translates into violent offline actions continues in the Global North, this debate should be enriched by data from the Global South. In Libya, the kidnap...
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Pub Date : 2024-05-07DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2024.2349057
Samer Bakkour, Gareth Stansfield
In the Syrian Civil War, external observers have often misunderstood and misrepresented the nature and significance of indiscriminate violence that drives displacement, with the result that it has ...
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Pub Date : 2024-05-02DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2024.2349066
Ibrahim Bangura
A good collection of existing literature provides limited reflection on classifying post-conflict countries as being ‘peaceful’. This is especially so, as the period following the end of a civil wa...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-09DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2024.2335733
Richard Caplan
The United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) is widely regarded as having been a successful peacekeeping operation. However, UNOCI bequeathed a number of challenges to Côte d’Ivoire which ...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2024.2332184
Susan Brewer-Osorio
What explains the divergent strategies of middle commanders after negotiated peace? After Colombia’s peace process with the insurgent group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, former FARC midle...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-02DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2024.2333867
Orit Gazit, Skyler Inman
The proliferating research in ontological security (OS) studies explores how irregular situations of ‘radical disjuncture’ remove the protective cocoon of routinised trust relations that enables th...
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