TY - JOUR PY - 2021// TI - Varieties of post-civil war violence JO - Violence A1 - Shaw, Daniel Odin A1 - Young, Enrique Wedgwood SP - 227 EP - 252 VL - 2 IS - 2 N2 - 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.

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LA - en SN - 2633-0024 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/26330024211039864 ID - ref1 ER -