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Colombia's FARC rebrands itself, adopting a new name
Do you want to know more about how rebels rebrand and adapt their profiles and ideologies after transforming to political parties? Check out this thread... 1/9 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/25/colombias-farc-party-rebrands-into-comunes
Do you want to know more about how rebels rebrand and adapt their profiles and ideologies after transforming to political parties? Check out this thread... 1/9 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/25/colombias-farc-party-rebrands-into-comunes
2. @jishiyama and Michael Marshall asks "What explains former rebel party name changes after a civil conflict" and finds that internal factors explain name changes more so than the post-conflict environment 2/9 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1354068815600913
@DrGydaSindre and Devon Curtis discuss the legacies and shifts in ideologies and ideas of armed groups turned political parties in the introduction to this special issue in Transforming State Visions https://cup.org/39kFG7n @govandopp 3/9
@benedettabertiw asks how involvement in institutional politics and governance affects rebel groups’ behaviour focusing on Hamas in Rebel Groups between Adaptation and Ideological Continuity: The Impact of Sustained Political Participation https://cup.org/2MxUOVT 4/9
@DrGydaSindre analyses how rebel parties rebrand and adapt their programmatic profiles over time in Adapting to Peacetime Politics? Rebranding and Ideological Change in Former Rebel Parties https://cup.org/2YmlvQk 5/9
Some rebel parties are hesitant to rebrand. Ralph Sprenkels discusses the FMLN's Ambivalent Moderation https://cup.org/3tasQkf 6/9
What role does resistance ideologies play in post war politics? This article by Devon Curtis and @gahoburihabwa
draws attention to the limits of resistance ideologies in post-war Burundi https://cup.org/3t1gY3K 7/9
draws attention to the limits of resistance ideologies in post-war Burundi https://cup.org/3t1gY3K 7/9
And importantly: Does rebel party's identity change impact its political success after civil war ends? check out @jishiyama paper in @govandopp Identity Change and Rebel Party Political Success https://cup.org/2Yki24D 8/9
For more exciting research on rebel group successor parties, follow @PAWscholars 9/9
