The introduction to the special issue starts from the observation that the political nature of
rebel governance is so far understudied. Moving beyond the functionalism and …

Day to day governance of civilians is not solely the purview of states. Rulemaking, rule-
enforcing, and goods and services provision are central components of governance, yet in …

Research on conflict processes has recently highlighted the myriad of tactics rebels use
which are not violent in nature (cf. Petrova 2019; Ryckman 2020; Cunningham, Dahl, and …

This article leverages data from an oft-overlooked case of rebel governance–India's United
Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA)–to demonstrate the importance of de-centring territorial …

What explains civilian victimization during civil war? Existing scholarship claims that
violence against civilians is driven primarily by competition between armed actors. We argue …

Conflict scholars have increasingly stressed the importance of taking civilian agency
seriously for understanding how conflicts operate on the ground and the social legacies they …

Recent work in international relations has problematized state-centric assumptions of
governance to explore variations in authority by a range of nonstate actors (eg …

While some militant groups consistently target civilians, others only resort to violence in
specific locations and points in time. Existing research typically treats civilian targeting as a …

Internal armed conflict is the ultimate instantiation of two actors–the state and a non-state
group–challenging the legitimacy of one another. The state primarily responds violently to …

Why do rebel groups decide to create alliances with other non-state armed groups? And
with whom? The existing literature on alliance formation in civil wars is divided into two …