Peace Processes and the Integration of Pro-Government Militias: The Case of Village Guards in Turkey

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dc.authoridBalta, Evren/0000-0001-6364-4426
dc.authoridAcar, Yasemin Gulsum/0000-0001-8049-7464
dc.contributor.authorBalta, Evren
dc.contributor.authorYuksel, Murat
dc.contributor.authorAcar, Yasemin Gulsum
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-06T17:44:05Z
dc.date.available2025-01-06T17:44:05Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractMilitia groups have only recently started to attract scholarly attention in the literature on internal conflicts. This attention is mostly focused on either the causes of their emergence or their functions and performance during the conflict. The role of militia groups in post-conflict processes, however, has not been adequately addressed. This article intends to fill this gap by analyzing the case of village guards, a type of pro-government militia system in Turkey, based on qualitative evidence from field research. While the dominant narrative in the literature identifies militia groups as spoilers in peace processes, the article shows that militias do not act as spoilers under certain conditions. In the case of the village guard system in Turkey, the permanent integration of militias into the state's regular military apparatus prevented militia groups from acting as spoilers. It then argues that the permanent integration of wartime militia systems is a consequence of two factors: militia networking and a lack of comprehensive peace-building structures.
dc.description.sponsorshipIstanbul Policy Center
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by Istanbul Policy Center; and Surec Analiz.
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0095327X20910769
dc.identifier.endpage227
dc.identifier.issn0095-327X
dc.identifier.issn1556-0848
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85082104896
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage205
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0095327X20910769
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14669/2921
dc.identifier.volume48
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000523852600001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage Publications Inc
dc.relation.ispartofArmed Forces & Society
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241211
dc.subjectpro-government militias
dc.subjectvillage guards
dc.subjectpeace process
dc.subjectTurkey
dc.titlePeace Processes and the Integration of Pro-Government Militias: The Case of Village Guards in Turkey
dc.typeArticle

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