Replication Data for: African Solutions to African Challenges: Explaining the Role of Legitimacy in Mediating Civil Wars in Africa (doi:10.7910/DVN/KPRL5U)

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Replication Data for: African Solutions to African Challenges: Explaining the Role of Legitimacy in Mediating Civil Wars in Africa

doi:10.7910/DVN/KPRL5U

Harvard Dataverse

2020-01-11

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Duursma, Allard, 2020, "Replication Data for: African Solutions to African Challenges: Explaining the Role of Legitimacy in Mediating Civil Wars in Africa", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KPRL5U, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:Jb1UMlYbEcrTr7me8jj/5w== [fileUNF]

Replication Data for: African Solutions to African Challenges: Explaining the Role of Legitimacy in Mediating Civil Wars in Africa

doi:10.7910/DVN/KPRL5U

Duursma, Allard

Harvard Dataverse

Duursma, Allard

Ogura, Ikuma

2020-01-08

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KPRL5U

Social Sciences

The current scholarly literature on the international mediation of civil wars predominantly draws on a rationalist-materialist perspective. This perspective suggests that the ticket to mediation success is the material manipulation of the bargaining environment by third parties with a high degree of economic and military resources. In this article, I argue that legitimacy also determines outcomes of mediation. The reason why legitimacy matters is that if a mediator has legitimacy, it can continue to look for a mutually satisfactory outcome and try to pull the conflict parties towards compliance. I show that legitimacy matters through systematically comparing the effectiveness of African and non-African third parties. African third parties are typically referred to as ineffective because of a low degree of economic and military capacity. However, African third parties are effective in mediating civil wars in Africa because of a high degree of legitimacy, which is a result of a strong conviction within the African society of states that African mediation is the most desirable type of mediation in conflicts in Africa. Drawing on data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program supplemented with unique data, which together cover all mediation efforts in Africa between 1960 and 2017, I find quantitative evidence supporting the effectiveness of African third parties. Compared to non-African third parties, African third parties are far more likely to conclude negotiated settlements and these negotiated settlements are more likely to be durable. In addition, African third parties are especially effective if the conflict parties are highly committed to the African solutions norm. Theoretically, this study deviates from much of the literature that solely puts forward rationalist-materialist explanations of mediation success. By bringing legitimacy to the forefront, this article supplements the current mediation literature, in which material sources of power are emphasized and social structures are ignored.

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• No. of variables per record: 60

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