The Battle for Algeria: Explaining Fratricide among Armed Nonstate Actors

Barak Mendelsohn

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2021, vol. 44, issue 9, 776-798

Abstract: Unity among a rebel movement is associated with positive returns, yet rebel groups often fail to come together and even fall into fratricide infighting. Focusing on a rebel field in which one group enjoys primacy, I present three pathways that are likely to produce rebel fratricide: first, power shifts within the rebel movement; second, spillover from internal conflict within the dominant group; and third, disagreements over targeting noncombatants. I explore the role these mechanisms played in fratricidal violence among the Islamist opposition in Algeria during the 1990s civil war.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2019.1580419

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