@article{ref1,
title="The stabilising impacts of corruption in Nepal's post-conflict transition",
journal="Conflict, security and development",
year="2020",
author="Jarvis, Tom",
volume="20",
number="1",
pages="165-189",
abstract="The peace-building literature widely frames corruption as a threat to the stability of states transitioning from armed conflict. Underlying this framing are liberal assumptions on the institutions required for long-term stability, to which corruption is seen as necessarily detrimental. In this article, I add to an emergent literature critical of this framing by examining the long-term impacts of corruption on local-level stability in Ghorahi, Nepal. Drawing on a new dataset of 89 interviews, I demonstrate the stabilising consequences of corruption on two key aspects of Nepal's post-2006 transition. First, I show that elite-level corruption arising from the transformation of the Maoist insurgency into the political mainstream has inadvertently contributed to the social reintegration of rank and file ex-combatants. Second, I show how a corrupt elite network in local government contributed to the cooperation between political parties - including the emerging post-conflict Maoist party. These elements broaden the evidence for the stabilising consequences of corruption, which is largely focused on the effects of elite-led patronage and coping economies during episodes of conflict.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1467-8802",
doi="10.1080/14678802.2019.1705073",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2019.1705073"
}