Armed Non-State and Para-State Actors

Abstract

This panel brings together papers that ask how armed non-state and para-state actors organise, govern, and perform violence across fragmented conflict environments. Moving across cases from the Middle East, and Africa, the contributions examine how these actors construct authority, mobilise supporters, and interact with states, civilians, and rival armed groups. The panel raises broader questions about the blurred boundaries between state and non-state violence, the social foundations of armed mobilisation, and the conditions under which armed groups compete, collaborate, or become embedded in systems of local order.

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Hezbollah’s Women in Resistance: Contemporary Roles and Beliefs	View Paper Details
Russian Intervention in Africa: The Wagner Group in the Central African Republic	View Paper Details
“Price Tag” Terror as a Performance of Rebellious and Militant Identity: Insights from Radical Settler Groups in Israel	View Paper Details
Integrated or Coercive? Typologies of Rebel Consolidation in Post-Assad Syria	View Paper Details
Patterns of Cooperation and Conflict in Multiparty Conflict: How Rebel Groups and Resistance Movements Fight Each Other and The Government	View Paper Details