Violent resistance : militia formation and civil war in Mozambique /
Jentzsch, Corinna,author.
"Chapter 1 introduces the topic and relevance of the book, links the arguments to previous work and provides an overview of the book's chapters. Chapter 2 contains a theoretical framework to analyze how militias form. It also introduces a definition and typology of militias, introduces the theory that guides the subsequent analysis, and provides an overview of the research design of the study"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1 Introduction : Militias in Civil Wars -- 2 Third Actors and Civilian Agency : Moving beyond a Dichotomous Understanding of Civil Wars -- 3 Intervention, Autonomy, and Power in Polarized Societies : Challenges and Opportunities of Historical Fieldwork -- 4 A War over People : An Analysis of Mozambique's Civil War -- 5 People Tired of War : The Timing of Community-Initiated Militia Formation -- 6 The Diffusion of Repertoires of Collective Action : The Location of Community-Initiated Militia Formation -- 7 The Power of a Vaccine : The Process of Community-Initiated Militia Formation -- 8 Conclusion : Violence and Civilian Agency in Civil Wars
"Chapter 1 introduces the topic and relevance of the book, links the arguments to previous work and provides an overview of the book's chapters. Chapter 2 contains a theoretical framework to analyze how militias form. It also introduces a definition and typology of militias, introduces the theory that guides the subsequent analysis, and provides an overview of the research design of the study"--
Militia movements
Civil war