A new typology of pro-government militias
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Sabine Carey and Neil Mitchell. 2015. "The Monopoly of Violence and the Puzzling Survival of Pro-Government Militias." submitted to the Annual Review of Political Science.
Belén González contributed to new Archigos 4.0 dataset
/Belén González contributed to the new Version 4.0 of Archigos (a data set of leaders) 1875 – 2014, which is now available in beta. The Political Instability Task Force contributed financial support. Access: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~ksg/archigos.html
Guest post on why it is a bad idea for governments to collaborate with militias
/Political Violence @ a Glance published a post by Sabine Carey, Michael Colaresi (Michigan State University) and Neil Mitchell (UCL) on the risks of governments collaborating with private actors in the security sector.
Presentations at Workshop in Konstanz
/Sabine Carey and Anita Gohdes attended a workshop on "The Political Economy of Inequality and Conflict", at the University of Konstanz, July 16-17, 2015. They presented their joint paper: 'Canaries in a Coal-mine? Predicting changes in state repression with treatment of the press'.
Presentations at EPSA
/Anita Gohdes will participating in the upcoming 5th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA) in the following roles:
- Presenting the paper “Canaries in a Coal-mine? Predicting Changes in State Repression with Treatment of the Press” (with Sabine Carey)
- Discussant on the panel “Dictators and the Media”
Sabine Carey giving a talk at the Meeting of DAAD-Scholarship Holders
/Sabine Carey will be giving a talk on “Why Governments Use Militias in their Own Countries” at the Meeting of Scholarship Holders of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), on the 9th of May 2015. The talk is part of the DAAD meeting “Wachsende Weltbevölkerung und demographischer Wandel – Herausforderungen für Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft”, which will take place from the 8th to the 10th of May 2015 at the University of Mannheim.
New publication
/The paper “Governments, Informal Links to Militias, and Accountability” by Sabine Carey, Michael Colaresi and Neil Mitchell has been published in a special issue on militia groups in the Journal of Conflict Resolution. You can access the article here. An ungated version of the paper is available here.
Read more about the Pro-Government Militia Project.
Guest post for the Washington Post's Monkey Cage Blog
/Sabine Carey has written a guest post together with Neil Mitchell (UCL) for the Washington Post's Monkey Cage Blog discussing the role of informal militias in Iraq and Nigeria.
