Selected Publications
Organized Violence after Civil War: The Geography of Recruitment in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
“The Dark Side of Power-Sharing: Middle Managers and Civil War Recurrence,” Comparative Politics 46, 3 (April 2014)
“State Strategies in Multiethnic Territories: Explaining Variation in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc,” British Journal of Political Science 44, 2 (2014)
“Organizational Legacies of Violence: Conditions Favoring Insurgency in Colombia, 1964–1984,” Journal of Peace Research 49, 3 (2012)
“Reintegration of Ex-Combatants,” in Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, eds. Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
“The Roots of Coercion and Insurgency: Exploiting the Counterfactual Case,” Conflict, Security & Development 11, 2 (2011)
“Anger, Violence, and Political Science” (with Roger Petersen), in M. Potegal, G. Stemmler, and C. Spielberger eds., International Handbook of Anger: Constituent and Concomitant Biological, Psychological, and Social Processes (Springer, 2010)
“Revenge or Reconciliation: Theory and Method of Emotions in the Context of Colombia’s Peace Process” (with Roger Petersen), in M. Bergsmo and P. Kalmanovitz eds. Forum for International Justice and Conflict: Law in Peace Negotiations (Oslo: PRIO, 2009). Republished in Spanish (Colombian Vice Presidency and Universidad del Rosario Press, forthcoming).
Kellogg Institute Grants
2014
2013
Book project exploring the post-war trajectories of rebel and paramilitary organizations; organized crime and state-building; recidivism and reintegration of ex-combatants; transitional justice.
Book project on coercion and politics: citizen support for political actors with violent pasts.