%0 Journal Article
%T Varieties of post-civil war violence
%J Violence
%D 2021
%A Shaw, Daniel Odin
%A Young, Enrique Wedgwood
%V 2
%N 2
%P 227-252
%X Quantitative research on the "durability" of peace following civil wars typically captures the breakdown or survival of "peace" in a binary manner, equating it with the presence or absence of civil war recurrence. In the datasets that underpin such studies, years that do not experience full-scale civil war are implicitly coded as "peaceful." Yet, post-civil war environments may remain free from war recurrence, while nevertheless experiencing endemic violent crime, state repression, low-intensity political violence, and systematic violence against marginalized groups, all of which are incongruent with the concept of peace. Approaches to assessing post-civil war outcomes which focus exclusively on civil war recurrence risk overestimating the "durability" of peace, implicitly designating as "peaceful" a range of environments which may be anything but. In this article, we discuss the heterogeneity of violent post-civil war outcomes and develop a typology of "varieties of post-civil war violence." Our typology contributes to the study of post-civil war peace durability, by serving as the basis for an alternative, categorical conceptualization of "peace years" in conflict datasets.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I SAGE Publishing
%@ 2633-0024
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/26330024211039864