Trapping Constituents or Winning Hearts and Minds? Rebel Strategies to Attain Constituent Support in Sri Lanka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4087063 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jannie Lilja (0000-0001-8727-2233) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 306-326 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Terrorism and Political Violence (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-6553 • E-ISSN: 1556-1836 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09546550902765615 |
| OpenAlex | W2019053400 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
Why do rebels choose violence over non-violent methods to attain the cooperation of their constituency in the war against the government? This article assesses the importance of rebels' dependency on constituent support through a case study of the LTTE in Sri Lanka. The empirical findings suggest that dependency largely results in non-violent measures. However, a multitude of passive coercion methods – broadly unaccounted for by existing theory – evolve over time in the form of territorial and social entrapments. This implies that rebels do not need the hearts and minds of their people to wage war at later stages of conflict. Time pressure, however, appears to result in violence
Coercion (linguistics · Criminology · Dependency (UML · Development economics · Economics · Government (linguistics · Multitude · Political economy · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Sri lanka · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Engineering · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Law · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |