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ToolsArı, Barış, Abbs, Luke and Nelson, Phillip (2025) Spoiling the broth? The impact of militia violence on peace negotiations. Journal of Conflict Resolution. ISSN 0022-0027
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Political militias are active in most civil wars, yet their impact on peace processes is largely overlooked. Building on principal-agent logic, we argue that the incentives to delegate violence to political militias have downstream consequences for the likelihood of peace negotiations. On one hand, battlefield violence by militias can complicate the bargaining. On the other hand, the higher use of civilian victimization by political militias may backfire, eventually bringing international pressure on the unwilling parties to agree to talks. We combine data on peace negotiations between government-rebel dyads with data on militia activities in Africa. We find that militia violence against government and rebel forces is associated with a decrease in the likelihood of negotiations. When militias target civilians, however, mediated peace talks with third-party involvement become more likely. We complement these findings using fine-grained data in a focused case analysis of Sudan and South Sudan.
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| Additional Information: | Data availability statement: All of the replication materials, including the data and code to replicate the analysis are available here: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SXTGMP by (Ari et al., 2025). Funding information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council [grant number ES/T006013/1]. |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy and Area Studies |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Sep 2025 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Sep 2025 14:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100316 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00220027251366585 |
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