Violence and Restraint in Civil War

Zusammenfassung
Discusses strategic choices governments and rebel groups make to use violence against civilians or to exercise restraint in civil war.

Autorentext

Jessica Stanton is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she held Fellowships at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, California, the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, Massachusetts, and the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research has been published in The Journal of Politics and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Klappentext

Discusses strategic choices governments and rebel groups make to use violence against civilians or to exercise restraint in civil war.

Zusammenfassung
Civil wars have come to dominate the landscape of conflict in the international system. This book engages scholars of conflict and human rights, policy makers at the domestic and international level, and undergraduate and graduate students - particularly in the fields of political science, international relations, sociology, public policy, and law.

Inhalt

1. Strategies of violence and restraint; 2. A new data set on violence against civilians in civil war; 3. Quantitative analysis of government and rebel group violence and restraint; 4. Government restraint in Indonesia; 5. Rebel group restraint in Aceh and East Timor; 6. Variation in government violence against civilians: Turkey and Sudan; 7. Variation in rebel group violence against civilians: Turkey, El Salvador, and Azerbaijan; 8. Extreme rebel group violence against civilians: the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda; 9. Conclusion.