Behind Enemy Lines

State-Insurgent Cooperation on Rebel Governance in Côte d’Ivoire and Sri Lanka

by Sebastian van Baalen and Niels Terpstra

Explaining the Energy Mix in China’s Electricity Projects under the Belt and Road Initiative

by Chuyu Liu, Thomas Hale, and Johannes Urpelainen

The Impact of Climate Variability on Children

The Recruitment of Boys and Girls by Rebel Groups

by Zorzeta Bakaki and Roos van der Haer

Inequality, Elections, and Communal Riots in India

by H. Zeynep Bulutugil and Neeraj Prasad

The International Sources of Prejudice against Shi‘a in the Middle East and North Africa

Original Survey Evidence from Morocco

by Matt Buehler and Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl

Introducing the Women’s Activities in Armed Rebellion (WAAR) project, 1946–2015

by Meredith Loken and Hilary Matfess

Local Brokerage and International Leverage

NGOs and Land Conflicts in Indonesia

by Ward Berenschot, Ahmad Dhiaulhaq, Aurelia Deviane

Shaping Electoral Outcomes

Intra- and Anti-Systemic Violence in Indian Assembly Elections

by Imke Harbers, Cécile Richetta, and Enrike van Wingerden

The Wedding Bells of War

The Influence of Armed Conflict on Child Marriages in West Africa

by Matthew DiGiuseppe and Roos van der Haer

Anti-Corporate Activism and Collusion

The Contentious Politics of Palm Oil Expansion in Indonesia

by Ward Berenschot, Ahmad Dhiaulhaq, Afrizal, Otto Hospes, Rebekha Adriana, and Erysa Poetry

Comparing Military and Human Security Spending

Key Findings and Methodological Notes

by Ruth Carlitz

‘Conventional’ Warfare Had Its Day

by Victor Bouemar and Romain Malejacq

Electoral Violence, Partisan Identity, and Perceptions of Election Quality

A Survey Experiment in West Bengal, India

by Ursula Daxecker and Hanne Fjelde

Elite Clientelism in Nigeria

The Role of Parties in Weakening Legislator-Voter Ties

by Leila Demarest

Fear of Campaign Violence and Support for Democracy and Autocracy

by Inken von Borzyskowski, Ursula Daxecker, and Patrick Kuhn

The Fight Against Corruption in the Territory

Territorial Auditing and Citizens’ Perceptions and Experiences of Corruption in Colombia

by Sebastián Pantoja-Barrios

From Liberal Peace to Positive Peace

Security Sector Reform in Deeply Divided Societies

by Alejandra Ortiz-Ayala

Governing the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa

Containment Measures as a Public Good

by Kevin Koehler and Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl

How Events Enter (or Not) Data Sets

The Pitfalls and Guidelines of Using Newspapers in the Study of Conflict

by Leila Demarest and Armin Langer

The Impact of Distance on Parochial Altruism

An Experimental Investigation

by Béatrice Boulu-Reshef and Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl

Noncombat Participation in Rebellion

A Gendered Typology

by Meredith Loken

Opportunity Structures, Rebel Governance, and Disputed Leadership

The Taliban’s Upsurge in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, 2011–2015

by Niels Terpstra

A Perfect Match?

The Dampening Effect of Interethnic Marriage on Armed Conflict in Africa

by Leila Demarest and Roos van der Haer

Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship

An Integrated Research Agenda

by Meredith Loken and Jamie J. Hagen

Threats to Electoral Competition in Colombia’s Elections for the Senate and House of Representatives

Risks Due to Electoral Dominance in the Legislative Elections of 2022

by Juan Federico Pino Uribe, Sebastián Pantoja-Barrios, and Luis Gillermo Giraldo

Violent or Non-Violent Action?

Civilian Resistance and Tactical Choice in Colombia and Mozambique

by Corinna Jentzsch and Juan Masullo

Women’s Participation in Violent Non-State Organizations

by Meredith Loken and Hilary Matfess

‘Both Needed and Threatened’

Armed Mothers in Militant Visuals

by Meredith Loken

Children at Risk of Being Recruited for Armed Conflict, 1990-2020

by Roos van der Haer, Gudrun Østby, Siri Aas Rustad, and Andrew Arasmith

Civilian Contention in Civil War

How Ideational Factors Shape Civilian Collective Responses to Armed Groups

by Juan Masullo

Contested Institutional Legitimacy

An Exploration of Delegitimation, Counter-Legitimation and Its Consequences for Open Societies - Examples from the Netherlands

by Georg Frerks and Niels Terpstra

Coping with Denialism

How Street-Level Bureaucrats Adapted and Responded to COVID-19 in Tanzania

by Ruth Carlitz, Thespina Yamanis, and Henry Mollel

Foreign Aid Won’t Moderate the Taliban

by Haley Swedlund, Romain Malejacq, and Malte Lierl

Gendered Accountability

When and Why Do Women’s Policy Priorities Get Implemented?

by Valeriya Mechkova and Ruth Carlitz

Ignorance, Denial and Insurgency in Mozambique

by Corinna Jentzsch

Life under Lockdown

Illustrating Tradeoffs in South Africa’s Response to COVID-19

by Ruth Carlitz and Moraka N. Makhura

Money Talks

Cross-Ethnic Patronage and Ethnic Conflict in China

by Chuyu Liu

The Obama Administration and Civil War in Syria, 2011-2016

Presidential Foreign Policy-Making as Political Risk Management

by Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl

Quotidian Institutions and Identity Formation

Explaining Patterns of Identity Salience in Maluku, Indonesia

by Jessica Soedirgo

Refusing to Cooperate with Armed Groups

Civilian Agency and Civilian Noncooperation in Armed Conflicts

by Juan Masullo

Renamo and Mozambique

by Corinna Jentzsch

‘Retreat to Advance’?

Delegation and Monopolization of Violence in Afghanistan

by Romain Malejacq and Christian Olsson

They See Us Like the Enemy

Soldiers’ Narratives of Forced Eradication of Illegal Crops in Colombia

by Alejandra Ortiz-Ayala

Thirty Years of Regional and Federal Studies

by Imke Harbers, Michaël Tatham, Louise Tillin, and Christina Isabel Zuber

Using Images as Data in Political Violence Research

by Meredith Loken

When Armed Groups Refuse to Carry Out Election Violence

Evidence from Nigeria

by Megan Turnbull

Anti-Muslim Bias in the Chinese Labor Market

by Yue Hou, Chuyu Liu, and Charles Crabtree

Belt and Road Decision-Making in China and Recipient Countries

How and to What Extent Does Sustainability Matter?

by Thomas Hale, Chuyu Liu, and Johannes Urpelainen

Center-Left Parties in Colombia

Between Advances, Setbacks and Mutations

by Juan Federico Pino Uribe, Sebastián Pantoja-Barrios, and Alejandra López Aguilar

COVID-19 in Africa

Turning a Health Crisis into a Human Security Threat?

by Roos van der Haer and Leila Demarest

Electoral Violence

An Introduction

by Sarah Birch, Ursula Daxecker, and Kristine Höglund

Elite Competition, Social Movements, and Election Violence in Nigeria

by Megan Turnbull

How Clientelism Varies

Comparing Patronage Democracies

by Ward Berenschot and Edward Aspinall

Inequality and Voting among Deprived Ethnic Groups

Evidence from India

by H. Zeynep Bulutgil and Neeraj Prasad

Legal Identity for All?

Gender Inequality in the Timing of Birth Registration in Mexico

by Imke Harbers

Nigerians and Americans Are Protesting Police Violence, But They Have Different Demands

by Megan Turnbull

On-Side Fighting in Civil War

The Logic of Mortal Alignment in Syria

by Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl

A 150-year Old Obstacle to Land Rights

by Ahmad Dhiaulhaq and Ward Berenschot

Patterned Pogroms

Patronage Networks as Infrastructure for Electoral Violence in India and Indonesia

by Ward Berenschot

Rebel Funding and Child Soldiers

Exploring the Relationship between Natural Resources and Forcible Recruitment

by Roos van der Haer, Christopher M. Faulkner, and Beth Elise Whitaker

Rebel Governance, Rebel Legitimacy, and External Intervention

Assessing Three Phases of Taliban Rule in Afghanistan

by Niels Terpstra

Sahelistan?

Military Intervention and Patronage Politics in Afghanistan and Mali

by Romain Malejacq and Adam Sandor

Spatial Tools for Case Selection

Using LISA Statistics to Design Mixed-Methods Research

by Matthew C. Ingram and Imke Harbers

Statebuilding, Legal Pluralism, and Irregular Warfare

Assessing the Dutch mission in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan

by Niels Terpstra

Subnational Variation Across States

A Typology and Research Agenda

by Imke Harbers and Abbey Steele

Testing Statebuilding’s ‘Missing Link’

Effects of Government Communications in Colombia

by Enzo Nussio, Miguel García-Sánchez, Ben Oppenheim, and Sebastián Pantoja-Barrios

Towards Active Reflexivity

Positionality and Practice in the Production of Knowledge

by Jessica Soedirgo and Aarie Glas

Who Shot the Bullets?

Exposure to Violence and Attitudes Toward Peace: Evidence from the 2016 Colombian Referendum

by Guillermo Kreiman and Juan Masullo

Why Race Matters in International Relations

by Kelebogile Zvobgo and Meredith Loken

Children and Armed Conflict

Looking at the Future and Learning from the Past

by Roos van der Haer

Civilian Resettlement Patterns in Civil War

by Abbey Steele

Electoral Contention and Violence (ECAV)

Introducing a New Dataset on Election Violence

by Ursula Daxecker, Elio Amicarelli, and Alexander Jung

Fraud is What People Make of It

Election Fraud, Fraud Perceptions, and Protesting in Nigeria

by Ursula Daxecker, Jessica Di Salvatore, and Andrea Ruggeri

Indonesia’s Elections are Too Expensive

by Ward Berenschot

Informal Democratization

Brokers, Access to Public Services and Democratic Accountability in Indonesia and India

by Ward Berenschot

Local Public Goods Expenditure and Ethnic Conflict

Evidence from China

by Chuyu Liu

Peace is a Losing Strategy in Mozambique

Why Elections Could Cause Another Civil War

by Corinna Jentzsch

Reporting on Electoral Violence in Nigerian News Media

“Saying It As It Is”?

by Leila Demarest and Arnim Langer

Risks and Opportunities of Direct Democracy

The Effect of Information in Colombia’s Peace Referendum

by Juan Masullo and Davide Morisi

Sovereignty Rupture as a Central Concept in Quantitative Measures of Civil War

by Nicholas Sambanis and Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl

Why Some Rebel Groups Force Kids To Fight

It Depends On How They Are Funded

by Roos Haer, Christopher M. Faulkner, and Beth Elise Whitaker