Insurgency, Border Contiguity, and Social Conflict in Neighbor Countries

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ID6286035
AutoresKaderi Noagah Bukari (0000-0003-2266-8215, University of Cape Coast), Kaderi Bukari (University of Cape Coast), Ore Koren (0000-0001-9011-1510, Indiana University)
Ano2025
Data de publicação2025-06-21
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00220027251353772
OpenAlexW4411505516
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas51

This study investigates how an insurgency in one state can intensify social conflict in a bordering state, focusing on the 2015 Burkina Faso insurgency and its impacts on northern Ghana. Building on past research, we theorize four pathways that can link insurgency to social conflict across the border. We use a mixed-methods approach, combining synthetic control models, fixed-effects panel data analyses, and extensive fieldwork across multiple communities, and find clear support for two pathways: insurgents using Ghana as a place for obtaining resources and diverted security forces creating vacuums exploited by bandits. The findings show that research and policy should consider more the interaction across multiple types of violence and varied geopolitical spaces in other susceptible world regions

Contiguity · Criminology · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Geopolitics · Insurgency · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social conflict · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance