Bettina Engels: Rebels at Work in Northern Côte d'Ivoire

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Bettina Engels situated her presentation within the research field of armed group studies. Influential for her own research has been research on "rebel governance" especially from political science and peace and conflict studies, as well as research on the social anthropology of the state. She combined the two strands of research to study rebel rule in Northern Côte d'Ivoire after the coup in 2002. Engels emphasises that the way how rebel governance works cannot be understood without consider...