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On the Legacies of Wartime Governance

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  • PatriÌ cia Justino

    (Institute of Development Studies)

  • Wolfgang Stojetz

    (ISDC - International Security and Development Center and Humboldt University of Berlin)

Abstract
In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper explores the long-term impact of individual exposure to ‘wartime governance’ on social and political behavior. We operationalize wartime governance as the local policy choices and practices of a ruling actor. Building on detailed ethnographic and historical insights, we use survey data and a natural experiment to show that involvement in wartime governance by armed groups makes Angolan war veterans more likely to participate in local collective action twelve years after the end of the war. This effect is underpinned by social learning and a shift in political preferences, but has no bearing on political mobilization at the national level or cooperation within the family. Our study documents a wartime source of pro-social behavior among veterans and exposes challenges and opportunities for bottom-up approaches to post-conflict state-building and local development.

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  • PatriÌ cia Justino & Wolfgang Stojetz, 2018. "On the Legacies of Wartime Governance," HiCN Working Papers 263, Households in Conflict Network.
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