RAPID: Militant Organization Preferences and Strategies for Reducing Postconflict Violence

RAPID：激进组织的偏好和减少冲突后暴力的策略

• 批准号: 2412014
• 负责人: James Meernik
• 金额: $ 9.33万
• 依托单位: University of North Texas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2412014&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Militant; Organization; Preferences; Strategies

Part 1. Conflict and organized criminal activity sometimes continue after terms to end civil wars are negotiated and agreed. This research investigates the postconflict preferences of militant and criminal organizations, and the strategies they use to achieve their objectives. The research involves interviews with imprisoned leaders who are participating in a peace agreement process. These leaders possess a deep and detailed knowledge of the dynamics of crime and violence including the logics of recruitment, arming, financing, and community relations. This research will use data collected from these interviews to test hypotheses about postconflict conflict and criminal activity. It promises to yield important findings and strategies for reducing violence in postconflict societies, including those that are partners of the United States. The research team will produce scholarly research and policy documents that could contribute to policy formulation in postconflict countries as well as those affected by significant levels of armed groups. The project can also be expected to help scholars, policing organizations, and others better understand the nature of criminal governance and how armed organizations prey on communities as well as provide security and dispute resolution.Part 2. Scholars have investigated the conditions that lead parties to civil conflicts negotiate peace agreements, and the degree to which such agreements contribute to the end of large-scale hostilities. This literature has devoted less attention to how militant involvement in criminal activities influence these processes. We lack knowledge of the postconflict preferences and strategies of criminal groups, and how these contribute to the negotiation of peace agreements and subsequent levels of crime, violence, and gang activity. The project addresses this gap by collecting data in the form of semi-structured interviews with leaders who have been assembled in a single prison to reach a peace agreement. The data generated from these interviews will be analyzed to understand the nature of criminal governance, how criminal organizations approach peace negotiations, and generate insights that reduce crime, violence, and gang activity.Part 3:This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

第 1 部分：在谈判并商定结束内战的条款后，冲突和有组织的犯罪活动有时仍在继续。这项研究调查了武装组织和犯罪组织的冲突后偏好，以及他们为实现目标而采用的策略。该研究涉及对参与和平协议进程的被监禁领导人的采访。这些领导人对犯罪和暴力的动态有着深入而详细的了解，包括招募、武装、融资和社区关系的逻辑。这项研究将使用从这些访谈中收集的数据来检验有关冲突后冲突和犯罪活动的假设。它有望得出重要的发现和战略，以减少冲突后社会的暴力，包括那些美国的合作伙伴。研究小组将编写学术研究和政策文件，有助于冲突后国家以及受大量武装团体影响的国家的政策制定。该项目还有望帮助学者、警察组织和其他人更好地了解犯罪治理的本质以及武装组织如何掠夺社区以及提供安全和争端解决。第 2 部分：学者们调查了导致各方犯罪的条件国内冲突通过谈判达成和平协议，以及这些协议对结束大规模敌对行动的贡献程度。这些文献很少关注武装分子参与犯罪活动如何影响这些过程。我们缺乏对犯罪集团冲突后偏好和策略的了解，也不了解这些偏好和策略如何促进和平协议谈判以及随后的犯罪、暴力和帮派活动水平。该项目通过以半结构化采访的形式收集数据来解决这一差距，这些领导人被聚集在一个监狱中以达成和平协议。这些访谈生成的数据将被分析，以了解犯罪治理的本质、犯罪组织如何进行和平谈判，并产生减少犯罪、暴力和帮派活动的见解。第 3 部分：该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被视为值得通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。