Within-Group Competition and the 'Collusion of Radicals' in Civil Conflict

• In Event: In-Group, Out-Group Dynamics and Conflict Processes

Brief Overview

We develop a formal model to open the black-box of intra-group competition in civil conflict. Counterintuitively, while ideologically disparate, radical factions in competing groups often have incentives to support one another’s internal ascendancy.

Authors

• Daniel Kselman, IE University

• Xiaoyan Qiu, Washington University in St Louis