1st Edition

Rebel Recruitment and Information Problems

By Kazuhiro Obayashi Copyright 2018
    188 Pages
    by Routledge

    204 Pages
    by Routledge

    How do rebel groups decide how to recruit members? To answer this question, Obayashi classifies recruitment techniques of rebel groups into two types, coercion and inducement, and develops a theory of rebel recruitment that simultaneously addresses agency problems inside rebel groups and the rebel-state contest over information.

    Important themes such as desertion, counterinsurgency strategies including amnesties and civil war termination are also examined to further understand the dynamics of rebellion and violent disorder. The theory is applied to examine the changes in conflicts involving the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka and the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda.

     

     

    Biography

    Kazuhiro Obayashi is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Law in Hitotsubashi University, Japan.