Studies of Organized Crime and Conflict Mini-Conference: Criminal and Civil Conflict, Criminal and Rebel Governance

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Part of Mini-Conference

• Studies of Organized Crime and Conflict Mini-Conference

Session Description

The panel explores a range of issues concerning criminal governance, its impact on state-society relations, the implications of criminal conflict legacies, and civilian engagement in conflict zones. It sheds light on the complex dynamics between criminal organizations, state entities, and civilian populations in various contexts, ranging from Latin America to Sub-Saharan Africa. The first paper investigates the phenomenon of criminal governance in countries where state presence is solid and violence levels are comparatively low, the second paper studies the long-term effects of criminal-group embeddedness on state-led repression against various civilian groups post-conflict, the third paper explores the proactive roles civilians play in violent conflict settings by signing local ceasefires and humanitarian agreements with non-state armed groups, the fourth paper investigates the surge in illegal oil theft in Mexico between 2010 and 2019 and examines the relationship between oil theft, the presence of drug trafficking organizations, and increased violence in Mexico and the fifth paper analyzes the dynamics in democracies that allow for coercive security policies, even when negatively affecting a large portion of the population and tests the theory that low-income voters prioritize immediate needs over security concerns, leading to strategic political behavior that downplays security issues for these voters.

Sub Unit

• Division 6: Political Economy

Cosponsors

• Division 4: Formal Political Theory

• Division 21: Conflict Processes

Individual Presentations

• Criminal Governance Strategies in Montevideo, Uruguay - Lucia Tiscornia, University College Dublin; Ines Fynn, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Verónica Pérez Bentancur, Universidad de la República; Gustavo Diaz, McMaster University

• The Legacies of Criminal Conflict for State-Sponsored Violence: Evidence from the Northern Triangle - Margaret Frost, University of Rhode Island

• The Effect of Local Agreements on Violence in Civil Conflict - Merve Keskin, University of Pittsburgh

Chair

• José Ramón Enríquez Harvard University

Discussants

• Heesun Yoo Academia Sinica

• Martin Castillo Quintana University of Chicago