Description - Aid, Insurgencies and Conflict Transformation by Rob Kevlihan
This book examines under what circumstances aid can contribute to the management and transformation of intra-state conflicts. Drawing on field work, the author argues that the provision of aid and social services can alter the incentive structure confronting insurgencies, resulting in organizational changes within insurgencies and in how they attempt to govern. These changes can contribute to conflict transformation. Such changes arise because of brokerage opportunities for insurgents between local populations and aid / social service systems in circumstances where these delivery systems are autonomous from the parties to the conflict. Greed (understood as processes of resource extraction by insurgents during civil wars), in other words, can sometimes be good.
The book addresses these issues through a comparative analysis of insurgents and aid/social service provision during three conflicts -- Northern Ireland (1969--98), with particular reference to the Irish Republican Army (IRA), southern Sudan (1983--2005), with a focus on the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) and Tajikistan (1992--97), with reference with the United Tajik Opposition (UTO), whose forces were primarily based in northern Afghanistan during the Tajik civil war. The book develops the argument in empirical detail by looking at the manner in which insurgents interacted with a resource base quite autonomous from them -- namely, resources provided through aid and social service systems under relatively different levels of resource availability -- high (Northern Ireland), moderate (Tajikistan) and low (Southern Sudan). This book will be of much interest to students of insurgencies, civil wars, comparative politics, civil wars, conflict management, and IR/Security Studies in general.
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