Rebel constituencies and rebel violence against civilians in civil conflicts

Bargaining Between Rebel Groups and the Outside Option of Violence

Abstract: Although military cooperation among rebel groups in multi-party civil wars could help rebels defeat or extract concessions from an incumbent government, violent conflict among rebel groups is empirically prevalent. Why do rebel groups in multi-actor civil wars choose to fight one another? This paper models the strategic dilemma facing rebel groups in multi-party civil wars as an alter...

Cognitive Support for Rebel Agents

Rebel agents are intelligent agents that can oppose goals or plans assigned to them, or the general attitudes and/or behavior of other agents. They can serve purposes such as ethics, safety, and task execution correctness; enhance social co-creativity, and provide or support diverse points of view. We previously proposed a framework for AI rebellion and explored various scenarios that have posi...

Peacekeeping & Violence against Civilians

Accountability and Responsiveness in Rebel Regimes

The Great Caliban The Struggle Against the Rebel Body

...take some Pity on me... for my Friends is very Poor, and my Mother is very sick, and I am to die next Wednesday morning, so I hope you will be so good as to give my Friends a small Trifill of Money to pay for a Coffin and a Sroud, for to take my body a way from the Tree in that I am to die on... and don’t be faint Hearted... so I hope you will take it into Consideration of my poor Body, and ...