New working paper series From Afghanistan and Yemen and from Mali to Somalia, checkpoints are central to dynamics of armed conflict, funding insurgents, driving violence and shaping governance by various types of armed actors, state and non-state alike. Nonetheless, checkpoints and roadblocks are often overlooked in debates over what drives conflict and how we should understand order in areas of contested statehood.
Authors
Peer Schouten, Vanessa Van den Boogaard, Max Gallien, Shalaka Thakur, Florian Weigand
- Published in
- Denmark
