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Post-conflict Security Structures and Citizen Buy-In

PI: Aila Matanock, University of California

Year selected for award: 2021

Post-conflict Security Structures and Citizen Buy-In

Principal Investigator: Aila Matanock, University of California

Co-principal Investigator: David Dow, University of Arizona; Rebecca Hanson, University of Florida; Dorothy Kronick, University of Pennsylvania; and Miguel Garcia Sanchez, Universidad de los Andes

Years of award: 2022-2025

Managing service agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Project description:
This project seeks to understand how to stabilize those precarious moments when the state needs to (re)establish itself as the accepted authority, particularly on the emergence of post-conflict security structures, state reforms, alternative security structures, and citizen buy-in.