Conventional wisdom portrays war zones as chaotic and anarchic. In reality, however, they
are often orderly. This work introduces a new phenomenon in the study of civil war: wartime …

This literature review provides an outline of a comparatively young academic discipline,
referred to as Rebel Governance. Individual avenues of research are divided and …

This article considers the concept of the rebel social contract by examining the case of the
Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. The concept of the social contract is a cornerstone of …

In several Latin American countries, social violence has risen to warlike levels.
Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to the extent of social violence and the new …

The phenomenon of governance by insurgents characterises many contexts of civil war and
influences political, security, social, and economic dynamics in the original conflict zone and …

El ciclo reciente de protestas sociales en Colombia ha puesto en el centro del debate la
necesidad de emprender ajustes institucionales encaminados a brindar mayores garantías …

Research on conflict processes has recently highlighted the myriad of tactics rebels use
which are not violent in nature (cf. Petrova 2019; Ryckman 2020; Cunningham, Dahl, and …

In this paper, we study whether leadership and community organisation can explain
differences in the presence and expansion of coca crops in rural Afro-Colombian collective …

This paper offers a space-relational extension to the local turn in peace studies. We argue
that unflattening the local in research on peace and conflict has the potential to explain why …

How does political violence affect popular support for peace? We answer this question by
examining Colombia, where in 2016 the people narrowly and unexpectedly voted against a …