Of the 27 major armed conflicts that occurred in in Civil W ar 1999, all but two took place within national boundaries. Anke Hoe ffler development, internal rebellion especially hurts the world's poorest countries.

Through first-hand accounts, most notably that of prisoner John Goldsworthy Parker, this article examines the lives men who were imprisoned following their failed rebellion in 1837 Upper Canada. As a close camaraderie developed, they began to think themselves as “John Montgomery’s Room” (named after owner tavern where rebels had rallied Rebellion). Included are descriptions daily lives, how int...

Why do individuals participate in weak-against-strong resistance, terror or insurgency? Drawing on rational choice theory, many claim that individuals join insurgent organizations for self-interested reasons, seeking status, money, protection, or rewards in the afterlife. Another line of research, largely ethnographic and social network based, suggests that prospective fighters are driven by so...

We explore Halloween as a uniquely constructive space for engaging racial concepts and identities, particularly through ritual costuming. Data were collected using 663 participant observation journals from college students across the U.S. During Halloween, many individuals actively engage the racial other in costuming across racial/ethnic lines. Although some recognize the significance of racia...

The use of agent-based simulations (ABS) in social science applications presents validation challenges. In this study, the authors use two theories for the growth of rebellion, one an ABS and the other implemented as a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Epstein’s (2001) theory for the rise of rebellion serves as one conceptual model. The authors implement this theory in NetLogo, ...