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Rebel governance or governance in rebel territory? Extraction and services in Ndélé, Central African Republic
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Abstract Rebel governance assumes a symbiotic relationship between coercion and public goods provision. However, in the rebel-held town of Ndélé, Central African Republic, we find that governance happens in rebel-held territory, but rarely by rebels. Rebels allowed other actors to provide services for the pe... mehr
Rebel governance assumes a symbiotic relationship between coercion and public goods provision. However, in the rebel-held town of Ndélé, Central African Republic, we find that governance happens in rebel-held territory, but rarely by rebels. Rebels allowed other actors to provide services for the people only when this did not hinder rebels extracting political clout and economic benefit from the people and their lands. We show how rebels’ extractive ambitions and governance discourses evolved during successive stages of rebellion through a diachronic comparison rooted in multimethod fieldwork from 2018 to 2022. We ask, why were rebel groups able to set up their rule, then rule for seven years, before ultimately losing power? Rebels evoked public goods at the onset of rebellion to justify the use of coercive means. After rebel rule was established, rebels outsourced public goods to international and state actors allowing for governance in rebel-held territory while focussing their own efforts on extraction. When their rule was challenged, rebels targeted governance actors and spaces in their territory in pursuit of economic gain and political dominance. Our findings call for a re-evaluation of existing rebel governance studies and the ways in which rebel groups are engaged with.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Zentralafrikanische Republik; paramilitärischer Verband; Staatsversagen; Akteur; Dominanz; öffentliche Leistung; Regierbarkeit; öffentliche Verwaltung; Bürgerkrieg; Bildungseinrichtung; Ausbildungseinrichtung; sozialer Konflikt; politische Gewalt
Klassifikation
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
Nichtstaatliche bewaffnete Gruppe; Fragile Staaten/Gescheiterte Staaten; Internationaler Akteur; Politische Dominanz; Öffentliche Güter; Regierbarkeit/Unregierbarkeit; Verhältnis Träger staatlicher Macht - Staat; Verhältnis gesellschaftliche Vereinigung - Staat; Sozialer Zwang; Politisch motivierte Gewaltanwendung
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 24-51
Zeitschriftentitel
Small Wars & Insurgencies, 34 (2023) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2022.2137282
ISSN
1743-9558
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0
FörderungFunded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) - Project number 437386574