A Road Less Travelled: International Human Rights Advocacy and Armed Groups

Petrasek, David

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“…The role of non-state armed groups – organizations that are armed, willing and capable of using force to attain their political, economic or ideological goals and not under the formal or de facto control of a state (Petrasek 2000; Schneckener 2009) – both in taking part in institutional politics and in delivering governance – has attracted growing attention in recent years (Arjona 2014; Arjona et al 2016; Börzel and Risse 2010; Mampilly 2011). Within the broader scholarly debate on the impact and dynamics of rebel opposition groups’ participation in politics (Holmqvist 2005), an especially interesting yet under-researched debate pertains to the question of how these organizations’ constitutive ideological beliefs, particularly those concerning the state and their state-building and governance aspirations, are accommodated and reinterpreted over time as a result of direct participation in institutional politics.…”

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Rebel Groups between Adaptation and Ideological Continuity: The Impact of Sustained Political Participation

Berti¹

2018

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The question of how involvement in institutional politics and governance affects rebel groups’ behaviour is pertinent when studying violent non-state actors, both during and in the aftermath of conflict. This is especially the case when participation in the political system becomes sustained over time. The interactions between the political and governance practices of a rebel group and its overall ideological orientation and state-building aspirations are not sufficiently analysed in the literature, especially in the context of hybrid armed-political organizations operating in latent, frozen or protracted conflicts. This article aims to begin to fill this gap by examining how involvement in institutional politics has shaped both Hamas’s and Hezbollah’s branding, interpretation and reliance on their own constitutive ideological manifestos, with an emphasis on both organizations’ dynamic processes aimed at reconciling political participation with their previous ideological rejection of the legitimacy of the political system and their constitutive calls to dramatically restructure the political order. Based on these detailed accounts, this article reflects on how the complex relationship between politics, electoral competition, governance and ideological principles can shape an armed group’s political identity.

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Rebel Groups between Adaptation and Ideological Continuity: The Impact of Sustained Political Participation

Berti¹

2018

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The Procedural Right to a Remedy When the State has Left the Building? A Reflection on Armed Groups, Courts and Domestic Law

Fortin¹

2022

Journal of Human Rights Practice

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This article analyses the procedural right to a remedy under human rights law when applied to armed groups controlling territory and exercising governance. Using the Al Hassan case before the International Criminal Court as a reference point and drawing on literature on rebel governance from other disciplines, the article conducts a critical review of the application of the right to a remedy to armed groups. Finding that the right to a procedural remedy applied to armed groups can be useful and realistic, the articles evaluates how the main tools of the right to a remedy (1) domestic law and (2) domestic courts, can and should be treated, when dealing with territory controlled by armed groups. Adopting a high-altitude perspective that identifies and discusses the dynamics within the discourse that resist recognition of armed groups’ law and courts under human rights law, the article highlights key tensions within the system of international law and reflects on what the legal framework, taken as a system, can expect and require from armed groups.

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Convergence, Confusion, Conflation - An Analysis of the Intersection of Human Rights and Humanitarian Discourses

Comninos¹

2016

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A Road Less Travelled: International Human Rights Advocacy and Armed Groups

Cited by 3 publications

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Rebel Groups between Adaptation and Ideological Continuity: The Impact of Sustained Political Participation

Rebel Groups between Adaptation and Ideological Continuity: The Impact of Sustained Political Participation

The Procedural Right to a Remedy When the State has Left the Building? A Reflection on Armed Groups, Courts and Domestic Law

Convergence, Confusion, Conflation - An Analysis of the Intersection of Human Rights and Humanitarian Discourses

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