Contestation, Governance, and the Production of Violence Against Civilians
Coercive Political Order in Rural Colombia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6284661 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrés F Aponte González (Save the Children, Bogotá, Colombia), Daniel Hirschel-Burns (0000-0002-0926-3611, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA), Andres D Uribe (0000-0002-2026-0462, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 616-641 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00220027231177591 |
| OpenAlex | W4379386983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 49 |
What explains civilian victimization during civil war? Existing scholarship claims that violence against civilians is driven primarily by competition between armed actors. We argue that this explanation neglects a crucial cause of civilian victimization: in communities they rule, armed groups employ systematic violence against civilians to establish and sustain social order. Drawing on original microlevel quantitative data from Colombia, we show that areas controlled by a sole armed actor experience high levels of victimization, while places where multiple actors jointly govern exhibit significantly less violence. To explain this pattern, we draw on evidence from original interviews, focus groups, and secondary sources. We show that armed groups employ violence to govern areas they control and enact social order. But this violence is checked when multiple groups rule jointly: the factors that sustain pacted rule disincentivize victimization. These results have implications for theories of political order, violence, and governance by non-state actors
Armed conflict · Competition (biology · Corporate governance · Criminology · Economics · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Society in Latin America
Cities and the Spatial Politics of Violence and Peace in Post-Accord Colombia
Delegative peacebuilding
Social distancing and Covid-19 under violence
Out-Competing Rivals
The Violent Path to Power
Coercive Legacies
Partners in Crime
Spraying Conflict
Gender in elections
Party competition and the limits of electoral coercion
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South
The Commander's Dilemma
Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War
Alliance Formation in Civil Wars
The Monopoly of Violence
Lynching and Local Justice
Homicidal Ecologies
Rivalry and Revenge
Governing for Revolution
The Logic of Violence in Civil War
Rebelocracy
When democracies kill
Varieties of vigilantism
End-of-conflict deforestation
Violence and Urban Order in Nairobi, Kenya and Lagos, Nigeria
Compliance vs. constraints
The Logic of Illicit Flows in Armed Conflict
What Should We Mean by “Pattern of Political Violence”? Repertoire, Targeting, Frequency, and Technique
Crime, Violence, and Illicit Economies in Regional and Global Perspective
Conceptualizing Criminal Governance
States, Insurgents, and Wartime Political Orders
Competition and Civilian Victimization
Rebel Justice during Armed Conflict
The Social Terrain of Rebel Held Territory
Explaining Population Displacement Strategies in Civil Wars
The Politics of Vigilantism
Inequality and the Emergence of Vigilante Organizations
Violence Against Civilians During Armed Conflict
The Dynamics of Violence in Vietnam
Territorial control in civil wars
What is rebel governance? Introducing a new dataset on rebel institutions, 1945-2012
Varieties of civil war and mass killing
Armed intervention and civilian victimization in intrastate conflicts
Ideology and armed conflict
Organized criminal violence and territorial control
Ideology in civil war
Queering Conflict
Endogenous Taxation in Ongoing Internal Conflict
Killing in the Slums
Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War
The Logic of Kidnapping in Civil War
Aid as a Tool against Insurgency
Armed Groups and Sexual Violence
Telling the Difference
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |