Patricia Justino is Deputy Director of the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. Her expertise lies at the intersection of development economics and political science, with a focus on political violence, institutional transformation, and governance's impact on development outcomes. She co-founded the Households in Conflict Network and leads research initiatives funded by entities such as the European Commission and the United Kingdom's Economic and Social Research Council. Her influential work appears in top journals and includes A Micro-Level Perspective on the Dynamics of Conflict, Violence, and Development (OUP, 2013). She has advised numerous international organizations and held visiting positions at institutions including Harvard University and the European University Institute.

• Part I Conceptualizing: A New Research Agenda 1: Patricia Justino: Institutional legacies of violent conflict: A new research agenda 2: Patricia Justino: Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societies Part II The Legacies of Wartime Governance 3: Margarita Gáfaro, Ana Maria Ibáñez, and Patricia Justino: Civic participation in civil war: Armed group presence and civilian responses in Colombia 4: Abbey Steele and Michael Weintraub: Rebel governance and political participation 5: Kit Rickard and Kristin M. Bakke: 'Ten pound touts': Post-conflict trust and the legacy of counterinsurgency in Northern Ireland 6: Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero: Killing for control: How drug traffickers capture the state and expand their criminal economies Part III Wartime Institutional Legacies and Post-War State-Building 7: Shelley Liu: Varieties of insecurity and rebel-civilian ties across time: Evidence from post-war Zimbabwe 8: Marine Gassier: Armed groups' modes of local engagement and post-conflict (in)stability: Insights from the Ethiopian and Somali civil wars 9: Marta Furlan: Rebel governance during COVID-19: Describing and explaining armed groups' response to the pandemic in the Middle East 10: Sarah Zukerman Daly: Political life after ethnic war Part IV Is there a role for external interventions? 11: Adam Day: States of disorder: An ecosystems approach to state-building in conflict-affected countries 12: Cyrus Samii: Revisiting community-driven reconstruction in fragile states 13: Patricia Justino: Final remarks: Prospects for state-building in post-conflict countries

Patricia Justino is Deputy Director of the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. Her expertise lies at the intersection of development economics and political science, with a focus on political violence, institutional transformation, and governance's impact on development outcomes. She co-founded the Households in Conflict Network and leads research initiatives funded by entities such as the European Commission and the United Kingdom's Economic and Social Research Council. Her influential work appears in top journals and includes A Micro-Level Perspective on the Dynamics of Conflict, Violence, and Development (OUP, 2013). She has advised numerous international organizations and held visiting positions at institutions including Harvard University and the European University Institute.

• Part I Conceptualizing: A New Research Agenda 1: Patricia Justino: Institutional legacies of violent conflict: A new research agenda 2: Patricia Justino: Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societies Part II The Legacies of Wartime Governance 3: Margarita Gáfaro, Ana Maria Ibáñez, and Patricia Justino: Civic participation in civil war: Armed group presence and civilian responses in Colombia 4: Abbey Steele and Michael Weintraub: Rebel governance and political participation 5: Kit Rickard and Kristin M. Bakke: 'Ten pound touts': Post-conflict trust and the legacy of counterinsurgency in Northern Ireland 6: Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero: Killing for control: How drug traffickers capture the state and expand their criminal economies Part III Wartime Institutional Legacies and Post-War State-Building 7: Shelley Liu: Varieties of insecurity and rebel-civilian ties across time: Evidence from post-war Zimbabwe 8: Marine Gassier: Armed groups' modes of local engagement and post-conflict (in)stability: Insights from the Ethiopian and Somali civil wars 9: Marta Furlan: Rebel governance during COVID-19: Describing and explaining armed groups' response to the pandemic in the Middle East 10: Sarah Zukerman Daly: Political life after ethnic war Part IV Is there a role for external interventions? 11: Adam Day: States of disorder: An ecosystems approach to state-building in conflict-affected countries 12: Cyrus Samii: Revisiting community-driven reconstruction in fragile states 13: Patricia Justino: Final remarks: Prospects for state-building in post-conflict countries

Patricia Justino is Deputy Director of the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. Her expertise lies at the intersection of development economics and political science, with a focus on political violence, institutional transformation, and governance's impact on development outcomes. She co-founded the Households in Conflict Network and leads research initiatives funded by entities such as the European Commission and the United Kingdom's Economic and Social Research Council. Her influential work appears in top journals and includes A Micro-Level Perspective on the Dynamics of Conflict, Violence, and Development (OUP, 2013). She has advised numerous international organizations and held visiting positions at institutions including Harvard University and the European University Institute.

• Part I Conceptualizing: A New Research Agenda 1: Patricia Justino: Institutional legacies of violent conflict: A new research agenda 2: Patricia Justino: Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societies Part II The Legacies of Wartime Governance 3: Margarita Gáfaro, Ana Maria Ibáñez, and Patricia Justino: Civic participation in civil war: Armed group presence and civilian responses in Colombia 4: Abbey Steele and Michael Weintraub: Rebel governance and political participation 5: Kit Rickard and Kristin M. Bakke: 'Ten pound touts': Post-conflict trust and the legacy of counterinsurgency in Northern Ireland 6: Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero: Killing for control: How drug traffickers capture the state and expand their criminal economies Part III Wartime Institutional Legacies and Post-War State-Building 7: Shelley Liu: Varieties of insecurity and rebel-civilian ties across time: Evidence from post-war Zimbabwe 8: Marine Gassier: Armed groups' modes of local engagement and post-conflict (in)stability: Insights from the Ethiopian and Somali civil wars 9: Marta Furlan: Rebel governance during COVID-19: Describing and explaining armed groups' response to the pandemic in the Middle East 10: Sarah Zukerman Daly: Political life after ethnic war Part IV Is there a role for external interventions? 11: Adam Day: States of disorder: An ecosystems approach to state-building in conflict-affected countries 12: Cyrus Samii: Revisiting community-driven reconstruction in fragile states 13: Patricia Justino: Final remarks: Prospects for state-building in post-conflict countries