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dc.titleTolerance as Implicit Order: Militias and Sexual Violence in Indonesian Counterinsurgency Operations
dc.contributor.authorSOUL PARK
dc.contributor.authorSim, Zhi Ming
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-05T02:42:17Z
dc.date.available2020-10-05T02:42:17Z
dc.date.issued2020-08-24
dc.identifier.citationSOUL PARK, Sim, Zhi Ming (2020-08-24). Tolerance as Implicit Order: Militias and Sexual Violence in Indonesian Counterinsurgency Operations. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. ScholarBank@NUS Repository.
dc.identifier.issn1750-2977
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/177022
dc.description.abstractWhat conditions precipitate militia-inflicted sexual violence during counterinsurgency (COIN) and stabilization operations? Bringing insights from the outsourcing and social cohesion theses, we expand on the sexual violence as practice framework by focusing on the issue of commander’s tolerance. Given the principal-agent problem, tolerance can be conceptualized and refined as a form of implicit order. Prioritizing the relationship between government and militia groups, we argue that militia-inflicted sexual violence is amplified by two interrelated conditions – the link to (or association with) the government security forces and the autonomy permitted to the militias to act independently in maintaining control in conflict zones. As such, sexual violence-as-weapons of war logic can be extended to understand the finer variations of militia-committed violence in COIN operations. We elaborate our explanations by analyzing three peripheral operations conducted by Indonesian security forces and the associated militias: East Timor, Aceh and West Papua. We process-trace the mechanisms through which the two conditions of linkage and autonomy permit pro-government militia groups to commit mass civilian killing and sexual violence. In the final section, we conclude with broad policy implications from our research.
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
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dc.subjectconflict-related sexual violence
dc.subjectmilitias
dc.subjectprincipal-agent framework
dc.subjectIndonesia
dc.subjectcounterinsurgency
dc.typeArticle
dc.date.updated2020-10-04T01:29:30Z
dc.contributor.departmentPOLITICAL SCIENCE
dc.description.sourcetitleJournal of Intervention and Statebuilding
dc.description.placeUnited Kingdom
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