New Incentives and Old Organizations: The Production of Violence After War

Grandi Francesca ()
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Grandi Francesca: Department of Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, 2013, vol. 19, issue 3, 309-319

Abstract: The immediate aftermath of an armed conflict is a key window of opportunity to build sustainable peace and security. Whether and how violence arises during that time has profound effects on a country’s political and economic development. Yet, conceptualizing post-conflict violence has remained elusive. Much of this difficulty arises because post-conflict violence is a liminal phenomenon with a dual nature: it emerges during transitions from war to peace and is a combination of new strategic incentives and wartime organizational legacies. This paper contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of post-conflict violence with a theory-grounded typology, based on two axes: strategic aims (predatory, constructive) and degrees of cooperation (directed, coordinated, spontaneous). The premise of this categorizing effort is that with a more solid grasp of the mechanisms driving post-conflict violence and its variation we can design more suitable policies to lower its incidence.

Keywords: post-conflict; violence; typology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1515/peps-2013-0040

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