As recently as the mid-2000s, Catalonia was described and analysed by scholars as
exhibiting a non-secessionist nationalism and was seen within Europe and beyond as a role …

In this article three pathways into armed activism are identified among those who joined the
Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) in Northern Ireland between 1969 and 1972. The …

Malešević offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old question:'Why do humans
fight?'. Instead of focusing on the motivations of solitary individuals, he emphasises the …

Since the mid-2000s, the Catalan secessionist movement has become a key protagonist in
the territory's political landscape, moving from the margins to become the axis of political …

In reflecting on the contemporary challenges and future directions of transitional justice
theory and practice, this article addresses causality, accountability and political form in a …

The political functions of conflict-related commemoration have been examined in Northern
Ireland, as in other deeply divided societies. However, a gap in research has persisted. In …

This article investigates what motivates combatants to fight in non-conventional armed
organizations. Drawing on interviews with ex-combatants from the Army of the Serbian …

This paper argues that micro-mobilization into armed activism is strongly motivated by the
enactment of an identity that people already have prior to their mobilization as a way to …

The comparative study of civil war has recently gone through a “structural turn,” towards
large-n quantitative studies that explain the variation in the incidence of civil wars in terms of …

Go to any conference or workshop on peacebuilding and you are likely to hearcliche´ s such
as 'one size doesn't fit all'and 'there are no templates'. Despitetheir cliche´ d nature, these …