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McQuinn: DDR and the Internal Organization of Non-State Armed Groups

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Summary

Argues that ddr can be seen through rebel groups with their command structure and financing

Posists two axes:

Formal Command Structure Informal Command Structure
Community Based Resource CPN-Maoists Thubactis Battlaion
Resource Based Resource FARC-EP AUC

Compares maoist fighters in nepal, FARC in Colombia, thubactics battlion, and autodefensas unidas de colombia (AUC)

Links to Kalyvas - The Logic of Violence in Civil War and

  • Roy Licklider’s seminal study that that 5 years is a standard for peace
  • Also talks about liberia’s war based networks and command structures playing a role in DDR
  • Notes that relationships between group’s internal structure and DDR trajectories have not been studied

Previous research

  • Civil wars did not account for heterogenity of non-state armed groups until quite late
  • Several factors
    1. frequency and severity
    2. economic drivers
    3. onset
    4. duration
    5. outcomes
    6. peacemaking negotions
  • Paper used
    • recruitment strategies
    • rebel governance
    • economic models for group formation
    • prevalance of child soldiers
    • the strategies behind violence against communities
    • fighting tactics
    • pre-war social networks
    • role of gender
    • persistence of small and lightly armed guerilla groups
  • Uses Weinstein: Resources and the Information Problem in Rebel Recruitment
  • incorporates Staniland - Networks of Rebellion

Command Profile and Economic Profile

  • Comand profiles can be driven by terror or internal organization
  • Quasi-judicial processes can enforce greater cohesion, leading to lower levels of uncertainty
    • maoist fighters in nepal did this, were able to prevent from going back to war despite long term reintegration being stalled
  • terror caused by individual groups can lead to higher levels of uncertainty, ruling through fear
  • Financing can be either predation on the local community, which leads to higher levels of organizatoin, or resource-extractive based, leading to lower levels of coordination