A Rationalist Explanation for Violence and Peace in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12891799 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zahid Ul Arefin Choudhury (0000-0002-6276-6349, University of Dhaka, corresponding author), K M Azam Chowdhury (0000-0002-2607-3676, University of Dhaka) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 121-139 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9057 • E-ISSN: 1744-9065 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449057.2021.2000110 |
| OpenAlex | W4200535650 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 39 |
Despite a checkered history of conflict, Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) has failed to attract scholarly attention to the fundamental questions of the onset and duration of violence, timing of a settlement with a peace treaty, and longevity of such a settlement. This paper addresses these questions within game-theoretic models offering a unified analytic narrative of the conflict. It argues that while engaged in a protracted insurgency with the Bangladesh state, Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS)—the rebel party—had to solve two collective action problems: first, with the state, and second, with the ethnic groups that required assurances before joining the costly fight against the state
Action (physics · Armed conflict · Collective action · Criminology · Economics · Ethnic conflict · Ethnic group · Insurgency · Narrative · Peace treaty · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Settlement (finance · Sociology · State (computer science · Treaty · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
Understanding Nationalism
Old societies and new states
Political Game Theory
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics
A History of Bangladesh
Game Theory and Political Theory
Analytical Politics
The Art of Not Being Governed
Isolation, Assurance and the Social Rate of Discount
Economy and Society
Why Ethnic Parties Succeed
Ethnonationalism
Votes and Violence
Democracy in Plural Societies
Rationality and Freedom
The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
Institutions and Social Order
Theft of an Idol
Understanding Ethnic Violence
Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa
Ethnicity and insurgency in the Chittagong Hill tracts region
The Chittagong Hill Tracts
Balkan ghosts
Imagined communities
Ethnic groups in conflict
Diplomacy and domestic politics
Rationalist explanations for war
Ethnic Competition and Modernization in Contemporary Africa
Primordial, Personal, Sacred and Civil Ties
Armed Conflict and Regional Conflict Complexes, 1989-97
Annualized implementation data on comprehensive intrastate peace accords, 1989-2012
The Invention of the 'Jummas
Explaining Interethnic Cooperation
The War Trap Revisited
The Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |