Understanding the Consequences of Conflict Using New Data on Non-State Actors

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

The papers on this panel all use novel datasets to examine questions related to the termination and aftermath of conflicts, using these new data to better understand interactions between state and non-state organizations. Two papers use data on female combatants in rebel groups to assess how their participation in rebellion affects the durability of anti-government campaigns, as well as how they can influence the likelihood and composition of negotiated settlements in civil wars. Another paper employs new data on the organization origins of rebel groups to assess how a group’s roots affects the post-conflict government’s ability to democratize after war ends. Finally, the fourth paper uses original data on de facto states to re-examine whether conquest is indeed the main cause of state (both sovereign and de facto) death. In addition to making compelling theoretical claims, the authors will be presenting work that leverages original data they have collected in order to provide improved awareness of important phenomena such as conflict termination and state transformations.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 21: Conflict Processes

Individual Presentations

• Female Fighters and the Durability of Rebellion - Reed M. Wood, Arizona State University

• The Foundations of Rebel Groups and Post-Conflict Democratization - Jessica Maves Braithwaite, University of Arizona

• War Outcomes and “State” Survival: Is Conquest Really Dead? - Douglas Lemke, Pennsylvania State University

Chair

• Reyko Huang Texas A&M University

Discussants

• Megan A. Stewart American University-SIS

• Reyko Huang Texas A&M University