PSCI324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam
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Purpose is to achieve compliance and control from the civilian population. Complete control: incumbent: no need to use violence in this context civilians will be completely compliant in providing info. Neither side can prevent retaliation against collaborators. Here, control is incomplete this may lead to violence incumbents: need violence, but in order to exercise selective violence, collaboration is needed on the ground, so will the civilian pop. willing to provide collaboration? not really because . Results: no violence incomplete but dominant control: if control is entirely complete then the area will no longer be called the interval and instead it will be called the hinterland here we have control which is somewhat complete . Control is incomplete > incumbent needs violence this would indeed make them want to engage in violence. Control is dominant > incumbent can prevent retaliation against collaborators.