Parties, politics, peace / Carrie Manning, Ian O. Smith and Ozlem Tuncel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1: Introduction -- 2: The anatomy of post-rebel party formation -- 3: Electoral performance of post-rebel parties -- 4: Long-term electoral participation and political stability -- 5: Pathways to peace? Long-haul post-rebel party actors -- 6: Pathways to peace? Examining the cases of Renamo, Sinn Féin, and FMLN -- 7: Conclusion.

"This path-breaking book uncovers the important, under-appreciated role of armed opposition groups turned political parties in shaping long-term patterns of politics after war. Based on an empirically grounded and theoretically informed retrospective on nearly thirty years of post-conflict democratic state-building efforts, it examines whether this practice has contributed to peace and finds that engaging post-rebel parties in electoral politics has proven to be a viable long-term strategy for bringing political stability, that disparate post-rebel parties from different political contexts invest heavily in electoral politics and that few post-rebel parties actively seek return to civil conflict as a solution after becoming a political party. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners in democracy, governance, elections, political parties, post-conflict peacebuilding, and more broadly to international relations, comparative politics, and regional politics"

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