Progovernment Militias

The Impact of Pro-Government Militias on Human Rights Violations

People’s war: militias in East Timor and Indonesia

Much of what has been written about East Timor’s militias has focused on their relationship with the armed forces, and on the latter’s legal responsibility for the 1999 violence. This preoccupation with culpability, while important and understandable under the circumstances, has obscured the much deeper historical origins of the violence and the militias, and has diverted attention from the not...

Forgotten Actors: Exploring the Use of Pro-Government Militias

Criminals, Militias, and Insurgents: Organized Crime in Iraq

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Hamas, Taliban and the Jewish Underground: AN ECONOMIST’S VIEW OF RADICAL RELIGIOUS MILITIAS

Can rational choice modeling explain destructive behavior among the Taliban, Hamas and other radical religious militias? This paper proposes a club good framework which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local public goods in the absence of government provision. The sacrifices these groups demand are economically efficient (as in Iannaccone (1...