TY - JOUR
T1 - Justice during Armed Conflict
T2 - A New Dataset on Government and Rebel Strategies
AU - Loyle, Cyanne E.
AU - Binningsbø, Helga Malmin
N1 - Funding Information:
Research support was provided by Matthew Arp, Gillian Beach, Matthew Conaway, Ritu Dhungana, Cody Martin, and Fadi Mugheirbi. We received excellent comments and feedback from Scott Gates and workshop participants at CMI’s Center for Law and Social Transformation. We would also like to acknowledge the support and expertise we have received from our advisory board, including David Backer, Monica Nalepa, Ragnhild Nordås, and Stephen Oola.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - While armed conflict is ultimately about violent interaction between combatant groups, a variety of policies are pursued in conjunction with violence that contribute to the course of conflict and its outcomes. One underdeveloped area of research is the use of judicial and quasi-judicial processes during armed conflict. These processes, including trials, truth commissions, reparations, amnesties, purges, or exiles, are directly related to the actions and abuses of the conflict itself—a phenomenon we refer to as during-conflict justice (DCJ). To enable researchers to answer questions about when and why governments and rebels resort to these strategies, and to what effect, we created a global, cross-national dataset which includes 2,205 justice processes implemented during 204 internal armed conflicts between 1946 and 2011. Using these data, this article investigates the conditions under which governments and rebels employ DCJ as well as the potential effects of DCJ usage on conflict dynamics and outcomes.
AB - While armed conflict is ultimately about violent interaction between combatant groups, a variety of policies are pursued in conjunction with violence that contribute to the course of conflict and its outcomes. One underdeveloped area of research is the use of judicial and quasi-judicial processes during armed conflict. These processes, including trials, truth commissions, reparations, amnesties, purges, or exiles, are directly related to the actions and abuses of the conflict itself—a phenomenon we refer to as during-conflict justice (DCJ). To enable researchers to answer questions about when and why governments and rebels resort to these strategies, and to what effect, we created a global, cross-national dataset which includes 2,205 justice processes implemented during 204 internal armed conflicts between 1946 and 2011. Using these data, this article investigates the conditions under which governments and rebels employ DCJ as well as the potential effects of DCJ usage on conflict dynamics and outcomes.
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U2 - 10.1177/0022002716655441
DO - 10.1177/0022002716655441
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85040839498
SN - 0022-0027
VL - 62
SP - 442
EP - 466
JO - Journal of Conflict Resolution
JF - Journal of Conflict Resolution
IS - 2
ER -
