Authors key points

Question 1

Viterna

Answer 1

• Salvadoran guerrilla army
• three paths to mobilization
• politicized guerrillas: strong political beliefs and prior involvement in political organizations
• reluctant: coerced to participate due to state violence or survival
• recruited: persuaded to join by personal motives

Question 2

Ottaway

Answer 2

• Three classic problems politicians need to solve: Manipulating features of election process, Win voter support, Finance campaign activities
• ban on ethnic or religious parties
• corruption
• playing on fear and instability for change
• Decreasing polling stations can dissuade voters from casting ballots

Question 3

Trager

Answer 3

• muslim brotherhood
• interviewed them to see recruitment process
• US Engagement during Obama alienated Egypt’s non-Islamists, who saw outreach as a support to Bortherhood

Question 4

Duncan

Answer 4

• Mexico and columbia drug trade
• Analysis of drug trafficking’s impact on political power in Colombia and Mexico
• coercion and mafias

Question 5

Orkin

Answer 5

• Motivations for joining MK
  Deep sense of injustice from racial discrimination
  Brutal police response during Soweto uprising of 1976
  Inspired by anticipation of violence against students and need for self-defense
• rational response to systematic change and oppression of apartheid

Question 6

Berkeley

Answer 6

Durban Supreme Court of SA and white domination enforced through a complex legal system
Magnus Malan trial
March 1996, two years after SA transition to majority rule
13 white generals accused of orchestrating a massacre that had claimed 13 lives
Part of broader conspiracy to undermine the ANC and maintain white supremacy

Question 7

Arjona and Kalyvas

Answer 7

• Survey of ex-combatants comparing those who joined rebel groups and paramilitary groups in Colombia
• ## Three main areas: joining motivations, group organization and demobilization

Question 8

Moser

Answer 8

• discusses urban violence
• Political violence: guerrillas and political assassinations
• Institutional violence: state institutions like police brutality
• Economic violence: material gain like drug crimes
• Social violence: often gender based, like intimate partners with abuses

Question 9

McCoy

Answer 9

• highway in Brasil led to deforestation increase
• Criminal groups are reportedly engaging in violent acts as they clear the forest for pastureland
• Highway seen as a means to connect Brazil and promote development

Question 10

Lakhani

Answer 10

• mpact of environmentalist and dangers attached to investigating
• Feared for her life before her actual death
• Berta was involved in land and water struggles in Honduras
• She sat by in river in protest of a dam getting built, despite threats and accusations
• She was wanted and then murdered, showing how environmentalist were not safe, and they were shut down