Rebel Governance in Civil War

Ana Arjona is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, Illinois. She has conducted research in Colombia and Kosovo, and has published several articles in edited books and in the Journal of Conflict Resolution. She is the author of Social Order in Civil War (forthcoming), a book on the emergence of order and disorder in war zones. Her work has been funded by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Social Science Research Council, the United States Institute of Peace, Yale University, and Columbia University in the US; the International Development Research Centre in Canada; the Folke Bernadotte Academy in Sweden; and the Department for International Development and the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK. Nelson Kasfir is Professor of Government Emeritus at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. He has written extensively about African politics, agency, ethnicity, civil society, democratization, constitution-making, and political economy. He is preparing an international dataset comparing selected cases of rebel governance of civilians during civil war. He is also writing a book comparing rebel governance by two insurgent groups in Uganda - the National Resistance Army in the 1980s and the Rwenzururu Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s.