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Salamah Magnuson

Salamah Magnuson, PhD, is a recognized social scientist and conflict mitigation expert with two decades of experience advising, implementing, and evaluating peacebuilding initiatives in transitional and conflict-affected contexts. A published author and thought leader, Dr. Magnuson has served as a senior advisor leading civil-military, stabilization, and environmental peacebuilding change initiatives.

Competing for Legitimacy

Competing for Legitimacy

This book answers the question of why and how people form bonds with each other and with insurgent groups in fragile state contexts. It develops an overarching framework depicting a political social contract, presents the Grievance-Driven Pathway as one way through which a reformist insurgency-society contract can form, and conducts a systematic comparison using two novel case studies not yet evaluated in insurgency literature, the UFDR in the Central African Republic and the SLM/A in Darfur, Sudan.

Competing for Legitimacy

Competing for Legitimacy

This book answers the question of why and how people form bonds with each other and with insurgent groups in fragile state contexts. It develops an overarching framework depicting a political social contract, presents the Grievance-Driven Pathway as one way through which a reformist insurgency-society contract can form, and conducts a systematic comparison using two novel case studies not yet evaluated in insurgency literature, the UFDR in the Central African Republic and the SLM/A in Darfur, Sudan.