Chs. 1-2
Introduction, Costs
Introduction, Costs
1) Wars over government control
2) Wars over territory
3) Internationalized civil wars
4) Extra-systemic wars
What are the types of civil wars?
Combatants are motivated by advancing their own situation and self-enrichment
VS
Combatants are motivated by issues of identity rather than economics
What is greed vs. grievance?
The five types of civil war outcomes (UCDP)
What is cease-fire, victory, low/no activity, peace agreement, other?
1. Security
2. Political and peacebuilding support
3. Assist in transition toward peace
What are the roles of peacekeepers?
The two key issues of the framework agreement from the Colombian Peace Process simulation
What is transitional justice and disarmament?
The elements of conflict management
What is negotiation and mediation?
Territorial wars with an ethnic component
What are sons of the soil wars?
Countries with abundant natural resources have high poverty rates and slow economic growth because government leaders may take the profits and distribute it to their networks.
What is the resource curse?
The most common and effective type of mediation
What is a directive
The role of Norway in the Colombian peace process
What is neutrality?
The trend in civil wars post-WWII
What is more civil wars than interstate wars?
Conflict arises from old, enduring differences that have been going on between different religious, ethnic, linguistic, or regional groups.
VS
Wars are a result of external forces that highlight inequalities between people
What is primordial vs. instrumental model of polarization?
The outcome of the civil war in East Timor (Indonesia)
What is a peace agreement?
The conflict where the first armed UN peacekeepers were deployed
What is the Suez Crisis?
Four types of conflict in the UCDP Armed Conflict Dataset
What is...
1 = extra-systemic
2 = interstate
3 = intrastate
4 = internationalized intrastate
Type of civil war that generally has a long duration
What is a peripheral/territorial civil war?
The time period when there was a peak in coups (in number and in success)
What is the 1960s?
Reasons for state failure (at least 3)
What is....
•Lack of property rights
•Forced labor
•Economy dominance of elites
•Elites block new technology
•No law and order
•Weak central government
•Bad public services
•Political exploitation
•Fighting over power
Civil war actors that have used suicide terror
What are Tamil Tigers, Hezbollah, ISIS?
Types of territorial provisions of peace agreements in the UCDP Peace Agreement Dataset (at least 3)
What is autonomy, independence, federalism, referendum, local power-sharing, regional development, cultural freedoms (language, flag, anthem), border demarcation, local government?
This book predicts that there will be more conflict after the Cold War.
What is Huntington's Clash of Civilizations?
1. Political and economic reforms to address grievances
2. Restructure police and military forces
What are counterinsurgency (COIN) strategies?
The cause of the Aceh rebellion in Indonesia
What are oil-related grievances?
The two stages of terrorism in the Afghanistan case study
What is terrorism during the Soviet occupation and terrorism in the post-9/11 era?
The actor that was responsible for most of the one-sided violence against civilians during the Colombian civil war
What is AUC, a pro-state paramilitary organization and FARC's main enemy? (UCDP)