Political settlements as a violent process

Deconstructing the Relationship Between Political Settlements and Intrinsic, Instrumental and Resultant Forms of Violence

Bibliographic Data

ID5680802
AuthorsMariz Tadros (0000-0002-8228-5593, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, corresponding author), Jeremy Allouche (0000-0002-9639-3675, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
Year2017
Volume17
Issue3
Pages187-204
Publication date2017-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueConflict Security and Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1467-8802 • E-ISSN: 1478-1174
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14678802.2017.1319699
OpenAlexW2626121921
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited16

This article explores the opportunities and conundrums of understanding violence at critical junctures following ruptures in political orders through the prism of political settlements. While there is an emerging body of scholarship on political settlements, we specifically examine its relationship to violence, which we argue has been under-theorised. Through comparative country case studies (Bangladesh, Egypt, Kenya, Sierra Leone), we examine in a historicised manner how these types of settlements interact with various forms of violence at various scales. The article reconceptualises political settlements in relation to three forms of violence, intrinsic, instrumental and resultant, and shows how multi-scale dynamics and formal/informal interactions shape the violent nature of political settlements in different contexts

Archaeology · Criminology · Economics · Ethnology · Geography · Human settlement · Political economy · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Scholarship · Sierra leone · Sociology · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East