thank you to the editors @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social for inviting us to expand a short review into a longer essay, and for their helpful feedback. polisky civilwars25thanniversary

We hope that this essay creates inspires new avenues to study armed groups' strategies of conquest and governance; and to integrate work on lethal and non-lethal violence, and rebel governance and civilian mobility during war. polisky civilwars25thanniversary

I've been working on it for Moz (slowly); comparison with Tanzania is a great idea...

(Some day, someone should write about how media incentives and repression shaped reporting (and therefore data) on the conflict in northern Mozambique. The differences between coverage in Moz and southern Tanzania are stark.)