Comparing Armed Conflicts

Bruno Charbonneau (Laurentian University, Canada), Adam Sandor

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English

Routledge
25 September 2023

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Military history; Politics & government; Warfare & defence

Comparing armed conflicts primes the production of categories that, when mobilized, can alter the trajectories of the conflicts. Considering the political dynamism of spaces of conflict and intervention, and that practitioners regularly seek out academic expertise, this book discusses the possibilities and limits of comparative approaches to understanding armed conflict and intervention.

Capacity-building experts, development workers, international organizations, and diplomats use their previous experiences and bring them into new contexts to understand and respond to their environment. Conflict actors can also make comparisons to buttress their political position in negotiations, consolidate their control over fighters, and as calls for transnational rebel solidarity. The use of such comparisons is an inherently political move and it has an impact on the production of scientific knowledge, on conflict dynamics themselves, and on the formulation and implementation of conflict management policy: comparison is inherently a practice of order-making. While there are important epistemological and methodological stakes associated with researchers engaging in comparison, there are also important productive effects connected to the research avenues taken.

The chapters in this book were originally published in the Civil Wars.

Edited by: Bruno Charbonneau (Laurentian University Canada), Adam Sandor
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032016405
ISBN 10: 103201640X
Pages: 186
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Power and Comparative Methods: Performing the Worlds of Armed Conflicts 1. The Importance of Context When Comparing Civil Wars 2. Comparing Conflict-related Sexual Violence: Expertise, Politics and Documentation 3. Fanning the Flames or a Troubling Truth? The Politics of Comparison in the Israel-Palestine Conflict 4. Privileged Sphere of Comparison: Empire, Methods and Conflict Intervention 5. The Middle East is Violence: On the Limits of Comparative Approaches to the Study of Armed Conflict 6. Normative Scaling and Crisis Knowledge: The Problematic Use of Selective Analogies to Compare Conflicts 7. Sahelistan? Military Intervention and Patronage Politics in Afghanistan and Mali

Bruno Charbonneau is Professor and Director of the Centre for Security and Crisis Governance (CRITIC) at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean, and the Founder and Director of the Centre FrancoPaix in Conflict Resolution of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada. Adam Sandor is Research Associate with the Centre FrancoPaix in Conflict Resolution of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada.