Civil war recurrence and postwar violence: Toward an integrated research agenda

Violence after civil war is a challenge to sustainable peace. Many armed conflicts today are recurrences of previous wars and much of the literature on violence after war explains why armed groups return to the battlefield. But even if peace prevails, many other types of violence take place in postw...

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Vydané v:European journal of international relations Ročník 27; číslo 3; s. 913 - 935
Hlavní autori: Bara, Corinne, Deglow, Annekatrin, van Baalen, Sebastian
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: London, England SAGE Publications 01.09.2021
Sage Publications Ltd
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citation network analysis
Civil war
civil war recurrence
conceptual framework
Freds- och konfliktforskning
Literary criticism
literature review
Network analysis
Peace
Peace and Conflict Research
postwar violence
Recurrence
Risk factors
Violence
War
citation network analysis
Civil war
civil war recurrence
literature review
postwar violence
conceptual framework
ISSN:1354-0661, 1460-3713, 1460-3713
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Shrnutí:Violence after civil war is a challenge to sustainable peace. Many armed conflicts today are recurrences of previous wars and much of the literature on violence after war explains why armed groups return to the battlefield. But even if peace prevails, many other types of violence take place in postwar environments. This postwar violence is likewise subject to a growing multidisciplinary literature. Using citation network analysis, we show that research on war recurrence and postwar violence has developed in relative isolation from each other—although these phenomena are interrelated. This compartmentalization leads us to overlook important similarities and differences in the drivers of different forms of violence after war. We demonstrate this by reviewing the literature in both of these closely related fields. While war recurrence and postwar violence share a set of common risk factors, some factors can have opposite effects on the two outcomes. Because these insights only emerge when systematically comparing the two strands of literature, we propose a novel framework for the study of violence after wars that aims at overcoming the compartmentalization of research within these two fields. The framework serves both as a conceptual lens and an analytical tool to categorize and compare different forms of violence after war. We then outline how the framework aids scholars in pursuing an integrated research agenda, with concrete suggestions for research questions that should be studied to expand our understanding of violence after wars.
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ISSN:1354-0661
1460-3713
1460-3713
DOI:10.1177/13540661211006443