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    Community-Based Armed Groups: Towards a Conceptualization of Militias, Gangs, and Vigilantes

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    2015-07
    Author
    Schuberth, Moritz
    Keyword
    Community-Based Armed Groups (CBAGs); Non-State Armed Groups (NSAGs); Militias; Gangs; Vigilantes; Policy; Political; Economic; Security-related
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    © 2015 Taylor & Francis. This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Contemporary Security Policy in 2015 available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2015.1061756
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    The proliferation of irregular armed actors which defy simplistic definition has caught public and academic attention alike, not least in the pages of this journal. To move the debate on non-state armed groups (NSAGs) forward, this article seeks to enhance our conceptual understanding of parochial armed groups which are not primarily driven by ideological or religious objectives. Thus, this article clarifies similarities as well as differences between subtypes of community-based armed groups (CBAGs) on the one hand, and between CBAGs and other NSAGs, on the other hand. By doing so, a typology is developed that classifies militias, gangs and vigilantes on the basis of their political, economic and security-related dimensions. The resulting ideal types are discussed through the lenses of different explanatory frameworks and policy debates in the field of contemporary security studies. A major typological issue is the tendency for CBAGs to ‘turn bad’ and become threats to the stability they were expected to transform, becoming a serious problem in countries where they operate. It is concluded that the challenge of CBAGs ultimately needs to be addressed by putting in place a functioning state that can tackle the underlying woes that led to their proliferation in the first place.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10454/9911
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    Schuberth M (2015) The Challenge of Community-Based Armed Groups: Towards a conceptualization of Militias, Gangs, and Vigilantes. Contemporary Security Policy. 36 (2): 1–25.
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2015.1061756
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