1st Edition
Armed Group Structure and Violence in Civil Wars The Organizational Dynamics of Civilian Killing
By Roos Haer
Copyright 2015
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines whether differences in the organizational structure of armed groups shape patterns of human rights violations in civil wars. Since the end of World War II, civil wars have been characterized by extremely high numbers of civilian casualties. However, the exact extent of civilian suffering varies across time, conflict, and geographic region. Recently, a new strand of... Read more
Introduction Part I. Theory: The Internal Organization of Armed Groups 1. Principal-agent theory and armed groups 2. The problem of adverse selection 3. The problem of moral hazard Part II. The Armed Groups 4.Web survey design 5. Armed group analyses and results Part III. The Combatants 6. Quantitative interview with combatants 7. Combatant analyses and results 8. Conclusion and discussion
Biography
Roos Haer is a Senior Research Fellow at Konstanz University, Germany, and has a PhD in International Relations.
