Liberia's War Recurrence: Grievance over Greed
Liberia's War Recurrence: Grievance over Greed
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DOI：
10.1080/13698249.2010.534621
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
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1.1
通讯作者：
Call, Charles T.
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作者：
Call, Charles T.
建设和平的学者们正越来越多地超越如何通过谈判达成解决方案的问题，转向如何巩固看似稳定的战后和平。利比里亚提供了一个很好的案例研究，因为其1990-96年的内战似乎随着1997年国际支持的选举和国际维和部队的撤离而结束。然而，到2000年，它经历了新的战争，涉及许多相同的行为者。如何解释利比里亚和平的失败？最近对内战的研究强调了贫困、自然资源依赖和国家机构薄弱的因果作用。虽然利比里亚反映了许多这些因素，我在这里认为，不满和排斥行为的基础利比里亚的内战复发。这些发现表明，国家行为者和国际和平建设者应该把战略重点放在解决战后民选政府对前敌人的排斥行为上。
Scholars of peacebuilding are increasingly moving beyond questions of how to reach negotiated settlements to how an apparently stable postwar peace can be consolidated. Liberia offers a good case study, as its civil war of 1990-96 seemed to have concluded with an internationally supported election in 1997 and the withdrawal of international peacekeeping forces. Yet it experienced renewed warfare involving many of the same actors by 2000. What explains the failure of Liberia's peace? Recent research on civil wars has emphasized the causal role of poverty, natural resource dependency, and weak state institutions. Although Liberia reflects many of these factors, I argue here that grievance and exclusionary behavior underlie Liberia's civil war recurrence. These findings suggest that national actors and international peacebuilders should focus strategies on addressing postwar elected governments' exclusionary conduct toward former enemies.