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DESCRIPTION:SSP Wednesday Seminar with speaker Kolby Hanson\, Assistant Pro
 fessor of Government at Wesleyan University. The talk will be broadcast li
 ve on the MIT Security Studies Program Youtube channel.\n\nSummary/abstrac
 t: How do armed organizations change when states agree to tolerate their a
 ctivities? In this book project\, I investigate how government ceasefire o
 ffers have transformed the personnel and behavior of armed groups in North
 east India and Sri Lanka. The project employs innovative survey experiment
 s among almost 400 prospective recruits in three conflict zones testing ho
 w government crackdown and ceasefire changes which groups they are willing
  to join under different conditions\, as well as in-depth interviews of do
 zens of current and former militants tracing armed groups’ recruitment a
 nd activities over time. I find that\, in the absence of state violence\, 
 armed groups attract more numerous but less committed recruits\, and recru
 its flock toward more moderate factions. These dynamics help explain the s
 eemingly contradictory behavior of armed groups in low-intensity conflicts
  and peripheral regions: these groups can be simultaneously larger and bet
 ter resourced\, less cohesive\, and more open to compromise with state for
 ces.
LOCATION:E40-496\, in-person limited to the MIT Community
SUMMARY:Ordinary Rebels: Rank and File Militants between War and Peace
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 militants_between_war_and_peace
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