Create compliance and cohesion: how rebel organizations manage to survive
2011; Routledge; Volume: 22; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/09592318.2011.581477
ISSN1743-9558
AutoresRoos Haer, Lilli Banholzer, Verena Ertl,
Tópico(s)Political Conflict and Governance
ResumoAbstract Established conflict theories focus on the role of incentives in the decision to join, stay, or leave an insurgency. These theories, however, disregard the pressure that an organization can impose on its members. Similar to legal organizations, we assert that a rebel organization can sustain itself by effective human resource management. Using narratives resulting from psychological trauma therapy of former combatants of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), these management strategies are examined. The analysis shows that the LRA sustains itself in the first place by the use of brute force. However, they also manage themselves by a careful selection process of their fighters, by the conscious creation of social control, and by offering their members an alternative social network in which promotion and compensation play a role. Keywords: rebel organizationsdurationcohesioncomplianceUgandaLRA Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments of Thomas Elbert and Volker Rittberger. We also wish to thank the international and Ugandan team of vivo (http://www.vivo.org) for their contributions to the data compilation and their support. An early version of this paper was presented at the ECPR Potsdam conference (10–12 September 2009). Notes 1. Collier, Hoeffler, and Sambanis Collier, Paul, Hoeffler, Anke and Sambanis, Nicholas. 2005. “The Collier-Hoeffler Model of Civil War Onset and the Case Study Project Research Design”. In Understanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysis, Edited by: Collier, Paul and Sambanis, Nicolas. 1–34. Washington, DC: The World Bank. [Google Scholar], ‘The Collier-Hoeffler Model’; Fearon Fearon, James D. 2004. Why Do Some Civil Wars Last So Much Longer Than Others?. Journal of Peace Research, 41(3): 275–302. 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