Universiteit Utrecht (UU) • Minor Conflict Studies

Clear notes from all the Lectures of the course Mobilisation of Violent Collective Action in an Age of Terrorism.

This is my summary of the course Mobilization of Violent Collective Action in an Age of Terrorism. In this summary you can find my lecture notes and an extensive literature summary of the course given in 2022. You can find the exact literature that I have summarized in the table of contents.

Complete summary of the literature and readings for the course Politics of Reconstruction and Intervention. The summary contains the following: - Five generations of peace operations, Kenkel - At War's End: Chapter 1 and 2, Paris - Managing Contradictions: The Inherent Dilemmas of Postwar Statebuilding, Paris and Sisk - The Evolution from Integrated Missions to ‘Peace Keepers on Steroids’, Hofman - The application of Liberal Peacebuilding in Afghanistan and Iraq, Dodge - The Libera...

Summary of all the literature and readings for the course Mobilisation Of Violent Collective Action In An Age Of Terrorism. The summary contains: - The Social Construction of Organised Political Violence, Jackson and Dexter - Caught in the Crossfire Chapter 4 and 6, Mason - Feeling Social Movements, Ruiz-Junco - Fighting words, Bhatia - The Dramatization of Beliefs, Values, and Allegiances, Fuist - The Strategic Use of Emotions in Recruitment Strategies of Armed Groups, Meier - Ideolog...

Summary of the literature for the course Identity, Boundaries and Violence of the Conflict minor at UU. The summary contains: Identity Matters, Jenkins/ Similarity and Difference, Jenkins/ Definitions, Gellner/ The Archipelago of Fear: Are fortification and foreign aid making Kabul more dangerous?, Montgomery/ Ethnicity without Groups, Brubaker/ Religious Dimensions of Political Conflict and Violence, Brubaker/ Identity, boundaries and violence, Demmers/ Introduction: Violent Imaginaries and Vio...

Summary of the literature for the course Conflict Analysis from the Conflict minor at the UU. The summary contains: Introduction: Conflict Analysis in Context, Demmers/ Categories, Trends and Evidence of Violent Conflict, Cramer/ The Structure of International Conflict, Mitchell/ Mobilization for collective violent action: multi-causal approaches, Demmers/ The Causes of Internal Conflict: An Overview, Brown/ Identity, boundaries and violence, Demmers/ Ethnicity: Blood or Wine?, Baumann/ Telling ...

Summary of the course Politics of Reconstruction and Intervention useful for the Final Exam, from the minor Conflict Studies (Week 1 till Week 7). The summary contains lectures, articles and some relevant information from the seminars. The articles are: yan (2013), Kenkel (2013), Peter (2019), Richmond & Mac Ginty (2015), Joshi et al. (2014), Chandler (2019, Duffield (2010), Jesperson (2016), Malejacq (2020), Mac Ginty (2010), Mac Ginty & Richmond (2013), Boege et al. (2009), Stepputat (2018), J...

This is a summary of all literature and lectures of the course Mobilisation of Violent Collective Action in an Age of Terrorism (MVCA). This summary includes the articles by: Mason (Chapter 1 till 4), Duyvesteyn & Fumerton, Jackson & Dexter, Snow & Byrd, Bhatia, Fuist, Nepstad, O'Neill, Earl, Ruiz-Junco, Sargsyan & Bennett, Biswas & Deylai, White, Kalyvas, Goldstone, Kilcullen, Galula, Demmers & Gould, Zhukov, Jentsch, Aliyev, Fumerton & Williamson. This summary can be useful to make the take h...

An organized summary of the course Identity, Boundaries and Violence from the minor Conflict Studies. Including all articles and lectures. The articles are from: Jenkins, Gellner, Drakulic (all chapters), Montgomery, Brubaker (2004), Brubaker 2015, Demmers (2017), Schroder, Elcheroth, Ignatieff, Ferguson, Jaffe, Graham, Duffield, Gieryn, Leitner, Stanley, Fields, Demmers, Broeders, Chamayo, Gregory & Delori

This is a summary of all lectures, articles and working groups of the Introduction to Conflict Analysis course. The articles are: Demmers, Cramer, Mitchell, Brown, Ramsbotham, Collier, Kalyvas, Demmers (Identity groups), Baumann, Mason, Jackson & Dexter, Boege, Terpstra & Frerks, Waldmann, Demmers & Gould. With this summary I got a 7.6 on the exam.