Rebel governance and rebel violence against civilians are two closely related fields within peace and conflict research that have gained increased interest amongst scholars during recent years. Still, there is a gap within current research that concerns how variation in one field may influence variation in the other. This paper aims to fill this gap by applying a theory on rebel violence in the context of rebel governance to hypothesize that a high level of rebel governance will decrease the intensity of rebel violence against civilians. The hypothesis is tested through linear regression, using data from the UCDP One-Sided Violence dataset, Rebel Governance Dataset and a replication dataset by Huang and Sullivan (2021). The findings from the regression analysis suggest a negative relationship between a high level of rebel governance and decreased intensity of rebel violence against civilians which supports the hypothesis. However, these results are not statistically significant and therefore only provides indications of a relationship. Yet, this thesis contributes by interlinking two fields that are highly relevant in modern civil wars and thereby provides a small but important building block for future research.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-466896 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Bülow, Nelly |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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