Rebel Consolidation

The O/R Lab is working with a research team from the University of Washington and the Naval Postgraduate School to evaluate the process of rebel consolidation in civil conflict. While numerous studies have evaluated that process of rebel framengation, no comprehensive analysis of the causes and process of rebel consolidation (both cooperative and conflictual) has yet been conducted. We are in the early phases of addressing this research gap.

Dr. Michael Gabbay (UW Applied Physics) is the project lead on this effort, while Dr. Mohammed Hafez is spearheading the case-study research. The O/R Lab is responsible for one part of the broader project: building a cross-national dataset to evaluate whether the dynamics which appear to result in differing patterns of rebel consolidation at the sub-national level hold across cases. Keep your eye out as new positions related to this research team will be available in the summer and fall!

This work is supported by a grant from the Minerva Initiative/U.S. Army Research Office Award #75193-LS-MRI, ``Rising to the Top: Armed Group Consolidation in Civil Wars and Fragile States," (Michael Gabbay, Principal Investigator, with co-PIs Emily K. Gade and Mohammed Hafez, 2019-2022).