The Relevance of Ideology to Contemporary Armed Conflicts: A Quantitative Analysis of Former Combatants in Colombia

Juan E. Ugarriza, Matthew J. Craig

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This article counterclaims that ideology lacks relevance to contemporary armed conflicts, especially when economic factors play an important role. Focusing on the case of Colombia, the authors utilize logistic regression analysis to test whether ideology allows one to distinguish between different armed groups and whether a combatant's level of agreement with his or her armed group is related to affinity for that group's ideology. The high degree of collinearity between three indicators of ideology-discourse, attitudes, and emotional responses-and their similar explanatory power support the article's conceptual proposal of viewing them as different dimensions of the same phenomenon. The authors find that ideology continues to play a role in the internal dynamics of Colombian armed groups and that a combatant's ideological development is influenced not only by pre-enlistment experiences but also by participation in a particular group. Future research should not ignore ideology as an important element of contemporary armed conflicts.

Idioma originalInglés estadounidense
Páginas (desde-hasta)445-477
Número de páginas33
PublicaciónJournal of Conflict Resolution
Volumen57
N.º3
DOI
EstadoPublicada - jun. 2013

Áreas temáticas de ASJC Scopus

  • Administración de Empresas y Contabilidad General
  • Sociología y ciencias políticas
  • Ciencias políticas y relaciones internacionales

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