The Role of State-Sponsored Militias in Genocide

Ariel Ahram

Terrorism and Political Violence, 2014, vol. 26, issue 3, 488-503

Abstract: This article explains how and why armed, non-state actors collaborate with states to inflict massive levels of violence. Regime type and state capacity interact to provide state elites a menu of repertoires for implementing violence, some emphasizing direct state action, others emphasizing cooperation and alliance between state and armed, non-state actors. Rather than struggling in vain to build strong states to eliminate armed non-state actors and establish a monopoly over the use of force, averting genocide might necessitate recruiting and strengthening the power of indigenous, armed non-state actors.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2012.734875

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