Nelson Kasfir

Nelson is a political science comparativist working on sub-Saharan Africa, principally in Uganda. He is currently Professor of Government, Emeritus at Darmouth College. He conducted fieldwork on rebel governance in the Rwenzururu secessionist movement in Western Uganda (1962-82) and the National Resistance Army in Central and Western Uganda (1981-86). He is currently writing a book comparing their civilian governance practices, and constructing a worldwide dataset on the governance of 35 rebel groups. He has recently written on the legacy of rebel governance using the NRA in Uganda as a case study.

• Article & reports

  Nelson Kasfir, Georg Frerks and Niels Terpstra (2017) Introduction, in Armed Groups and Multi-layered Governance, Special Issue, Civil Wars, 19:3

  Nelson Kasfir and Zachariah Mampilly (2016) The Islamic State and Rebel Governance, Brookings Institute

  Nelson Kasfir (2005) Guerrillas and Civilian Participation: The National Resistance Army in Uganda, 1981-86, The Journal of Modern African Studies, 43:2, 271-296

  Nelson Kasfir (2005) Death in Darfur: Is It Genocide? Current History, 104:682

• Books & chapters

  Nelson Kasfir (2015) Rebel Governance—Constructing a Field of Inquiry: Definitions, Scope, Patterns, Order, Causes, in Ana Arjona, Nelson Kasfir, and Zachariah Mampilly, eds., Rebel Governance in Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press

  Nelson Kasfir (2004) Domestic Anarchy, Security Dilemmas and Violent Predation: Causes of Failure, in Robert Rotberg, ed., When States Fail: Causes and Consequences. Princeton: Princeton University Press

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