Explaining the variation in rebels violence in civil conflict: a collection of essays on reactive violence, synthetic events, and counterinsurgency practices
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Salvi, Andrea, Explaining the variation in rebels violence in civil conflict: a collection of essays on reactive violence, synthetic events, and counterinsurgency practices, Trinity College Dublin.School of Social Sciences & Philosophy, 2022Download Item:
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This dissertation substantiates in a collection of essays that examine the variation of rebels and insurgents violence in civil conflict. Building on the literature on the micro-foundations of civil war, we examine the impact of conflict processes onto said variation. That is, we investigate the reactive patterns of rebels violence as well as their unfolding in time and space, in response to specific counterinsurgents and incumbents tactics on the battlefield. In the three papers we focus on the specific cases of Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon to illustrate the how different stimuli may affect the geo-temporal activities of insurgents. The essays rely on fine-grained geo-referenced conflict data as well as on spatial data describing locations and times where these events occur. To explore the testable implications derived throughout the papers, we rely on multivariate spatial regression and matched wake analysis. The last contribution, a more forecasting oriented piece, employs likelihood-based methods based on generalized linear models for the analysis of count time series. The three papers are preceded by a broader introduction to the substantive field and by an extensive literature review.
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Andrew Grene Scholarship in Conflict Resolution - Irish Research Council and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
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Author: Salvi, Andrea
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Chadefaux, ThomasPublisher:
Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political ScienceType of material:
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