Doing Good while Killing

Why Some Insurgent Groups Provide Community Services

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4087265
AutoresVictor Asal (0000-0001-7614-4869, Department of Political Science, University of Albany, Albany, NY, USA), Shawn Flanigan (San Diego State University), Shawn Teresa Flanigan (0000-0002-9502-9839, San Diego State University), Ora Szekely (0000-0002-0730-1768, Clark University, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume34
Fascículo4
Páginas835-855
Data de publicação2022-05-19
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTerrorism and Political Violence (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0954-6553 • E-ISSN: 1556-1836
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09546553.2020.1745775
OpenAlexW3024605431
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18

Many nonstate military organizations provide a wide range of social services to civilians. The apparent contradiction between their use of violence and their provision of charity has been the subject of a great deal of research in the conflict studies literature. Two of the most common sets of arguments hold that such services are either a form of bribery aimed at controlling and isolating constituents and potential recruits, or an extension of the organization’s ideological commitments. Our findings, based on a new analysis of the BAAD dataset, demonstrate that neither explanation is correct. Rather, we find that the provision of social services represents a means of confronting and undermining the authority of the state. In this sense, the provision of social services represents an extension of the broader political goals of the nonstate armed groups providing them

Computer security · Criminology · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Computer Science · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence