POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Nonviolent Resistance, Civil Resistance, Nonviolence

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Internal conflicts: violent v. non-violent means, or: institutionalized v. non-institutionalized ways of resolving conflict, laws regulate peace-time behaviour. If not, violence means may be resorted to: spillover effects of violent means, economic refocus, crossing borders, refugees, i. e. spillover effects of civil wars (intrastate conflict) can be inter- state/international. Civil war v. interstate war: differences: territory, civil war: autonomy/irredentism, policy, civil war: e. g. discrimination (e. g, civil war: e. g. discrimination (e. g. uganda and the lra, regime change, weak states cannot resist serious challenges (e. g. sudanese civil war) Why are civil wars hard to resolve? (bargaining theory/rationalist perspective: rebels have no incentive to disarm (signalling resolve; credible commitment problem) Pol 208 notes: november 23, 2016: states cannot concede (signalling resolve; credible commitment problem; issue divisibility, relative power changes lead to uncertainty (credible commitment problem) Consequences of civil war: median duration: 6 years, effects, refugees, idps, child soldiers, gendered violence.

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