A Self-defense Network against Terrorism and Crime

According to prevailing evidence, self-enforcing agreements do not scale up. In self-governing societies, small groups are able to provide order and security when the group is small; but when groups are larger, collective action seems to be more efficient if undertaken by state-like institutions. However, an effective provision of national security may result from a bottom-up development of rules and institutions. This paper covers a case in which thousands of peasants built multicommunity partnerships that scaled up to produce public goods with no central direction. The organizational patterns of these peasant partnerships resulted in a vast rural movement that played a decisive role in defeating crime and terrorism in Peru between 1980 and 2000. The intergroup interactions reflected a polycentric order that served to discover the boundaries of the new jurisdictions

Business · Collective action · Economics · Organised crime · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public good · Sociology · Terrorism · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

• Che Guevara and guerrilla warfare

  Open Access•Dirk Kruijt•Globalizations•2022

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