POLA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam, Lebanese Armed Forces, Joseph Kabila

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26 Oct 2016
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Why (and how) continue conflict: beyond greed and grievance. A small insurgency group continues fighting (at least officially) even though it rarely engages government troops and there seems little chance it will succeed. It sustains itself by narcotic trafficking and/or lootable resources. How would you classify this rebellion (economic/greed, grievance or??) If a group was motivated by grievances, one would expect they would keep fighting until the grievances were addressed. (cid:272)holars: no, this (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior is i(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)siste(cid:374)t (cid:449)ith (cid:862)greed. (cid:863) If it (cid:449)as (cid:862)greed(cid:863) (cid:894)e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) opportu(cid:374)is(cid:373)(cid:895), the(cid:374) so(cid:373)e leaders (cid:449)ould retire, others would stop calling themselves rebels. Ruf enjoyed resource wealth from alluvial diamonds and support (or direction from. But clearly used coercion to raise and maintain army: could be the result of greed at the upper echelons of organization disinclined to share wealth with rand-and-file. A rebellion which maps onto ethnic or regional divisions in a country loots (or worse) from their own ethnic group.

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