| Summary: | <p>This doctoral dissertation studies the political effects of civil war dynamics at distinct conflict stages, with an empirical focus in Latin America. Concretely, it aims to address some of the following questions: How do distinct civil war dynamics affect subsequent institutional arrangements? Does exposure to violence from different actors affect civilian preferences towards peace? How do states distribute state power in the aftermath of conflict? Most of these questions have seldomly been treated in the literature of civil war studies. This dissertation aims to expand the debate on the variety of effects of civil war providing four core contributions:promoting the development of an analytical approach that conceptualizes conflict as processes with distinct phases; pushing towards an integrated agenda on political violence; advocating the necessity of engaging in actor dissagregation; and bringing the state back in into the analysis of internal armed conflicts.</p>
<p>In order to do this, this dissertation includes three articles. First, I provide across-national analysis focusing on the inter-relation between insurgent strength, intra-elite competition and coups d’etat, using a novel dataset of insurgencies operating in the region. Second, an article co-authored with Juan Masullo (Leiden University) studying the impact of violence against civilians on preferences towards the implementation of the Peace Agreement between the FARC-EP and the Government in the 2016 Colombian Referendum. And finally, a subnational analysis on the Sendero Luminoso rebellion in Peru (1980-1992), which traces the impact of the spatial distribution of wartime territorial control in the allocation of state capacity measures in the aftermath of conflict. The combination of these projects aim to provide new and important insights to the burgeoning research on civil war, but also to inform policymakers and international organizations about conflict processes and their capacity for intervention or resolution at different stages.</p>
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