Yazar
Paker, Evren Balta, Yuksel, M., Acar, Y. G.
Basım Tarihi
2022-01
Basım Yeri
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Sage
Konu
Pro-government militias, Village guards, Peace process, Turkey
Tür
Süreli Yayın
Dil
İngilizce
Dijital
Evet
Yazma
Hayır
Kütüphane
Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası
0095-327X
Kayıt Numarası
80f298cd-a46d-4c17-9f9d-5ca46f82b12a
Lokasyon
International Relations
Tarih
2022-01
Notlar
Istanbul Policy Center
Örnek Metin
Militia groups have only recently started to attract scholarly attention in the literature on internal conflicts. This attention is mostly focused on either the causes of their emergence or their functions and performance during the conflict. The role of militia groups in post-conflict processes, however, has not been adequately addressed. This article intends to fill this gap by analyzing the case of village guards, a type of pro-government militia system in Turkey, based on qualitative evidence from field research. While the dominant narrative in the literature identifies militia groups as spoilers in peace processes, the article shows that militias do not act as spoilers under certain conditions. In the case of the village guard system in Turkey, the permanent integration of militias into the state's regular military apparatus prevented militia groups from acting as spoilers. It then argues that the permanent integration of wartime militia systems is a consequence of two factors: militia networking and a lack of comprehensive peace-building structures.
DOI
10.1177/0095327X20910769
Cilt
48
