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Title: | Violence and Social Order beyond the State: Somalia and Angola |
Authors: | Bakonyi, Jutta Stuvøy, Kirsti |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 32 |
Issue: | 104-105 |
Pages: | 359-382 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Angola Somalia |
Subjects: | social structure political violence civil wars Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations History and Exploration Law, Human Rights and Violence Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240500329379 |
Abstract: | This paper examines the activities of non-State actors in war in Somalia and Angola. Arguing that prolonged wars are characterized by the emergence of social orders of violence beyond the State, the paper focuses on how actors establish and sustain these orders. A core influence is the insight from research on war economies that war is not equal to the breakdown of societal order, but represents an alternative form of social order. The paper therefore examines the economic activities of insurgents in regard to their embeddedness in social and political spheres. The central question is how economic, political and symbolic aspects interact and determine as well as transform social orders of violence. With the examples of Somalia and Angola, two rather distinct cases of non-State orders of violence are examined. It is argued that these orders represent forms of authority with fundamental structural aspects in common. The paper suggests that these orders can be systematized on a continuum between two poles of institutionalization of authority beyond the State: a warlord system (Somalia) and a quasi-State system of violence (Angola). Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |