Eyewitness: The Battle for South Lebanon. Interview with Dr. Chris Giannou

Giannou, Chris

doi:10.1525/jps.1982.11.4.00p0008e

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“…In the fall of 1982, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians and low-level party cadres who remained in Lebanon were still reeling from the invasion, which destroyed Palestinian refugee camps in South Lebanon, left many Beirut neighborhoods in ruin, and fragmented Palestinian resistance organizations 8 . The IDF occupied South Lebanon, including refugee camps in Saida and Sour; more than ten thousand Palestinian and Lebanese men and many women from this region between the ages of 15 and 60 were interned at facilities such as the Ansar prison camp outside Nabatiyya or, if they were deemed high status, were sent to detention facilities in Israel (Abourahme 2010; Denkner 1983; Giannou 1982; Khalidi 1985; Khalili 2008; Schiff and Ya'ari 1984, chap. 8; Yermiya 1984).…”

Section: Organizational Fragmentation After the 1982 Invasionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organizing Rebellion: Rethinking High-Risk Mobilization and Social Networks in War

2013

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R esearch on violent mobilization broadly emphasizes who joins rebellions and why, but neglects to explain the timing or nature of participation. Support and logistical apparatuses play critical roles in sustaining armed conflict, but scholars have not explained role differentiation within militant organizations or accounted for the structures, processes, and practices that produce discrete categories of fighters, soldiers, and staff. Extant theories consequently conflate mobilization and participation in rebel organizations with frontline combat. This article argues that, to understand wartime mobilization and organizational resilience, scholars must situate militants in their organizational and social context. By tracing the emergence and evolution of female-dominated clandestine supply, financial, and information networks in 1980s Lebanon, it demonstrates that mobilization pathways and organizational subdivisions emerge from the systematic overlap between formal militant hierarchies and quotidian social networks. In doing so, this article elucidates the nuanced relationship between social structure, militant organizations, and sustained rebellion.H ow is rebellion sustained? This question is more complex than it appears. Scholarship on individual and group mobilization has demonstrated how relative deprivation (may influence actors' decisions to participate in collective violence and other high-risk behaviors. Research on organized rebellion, for its part, has focused on determinants of explicitly violent behavior (Humphreys and Weinstein

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Section: Organizational Fragmentation After the 1982 Invasionmentioning

confidence: 99%