Working Paper
5 April 2018
Indirect Rule in Armed Conflict: Theoretical Insights from Eastern DRC
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Recent literature has shown that the study of armed conflict can be highly informative to understand processes of state-building. One of the fundamental choices that states or other military actors face when occupying new territories and populations is whether to administer them by developing novel administrations (direct rule), or by devolving rule to pre-existing local authorities (indirect rule).
