Oliver Kaplan is an Assistant Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He was previously a postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University, New Jersey in the Woodrow Wilson School and at Stanford University, California. His research for Resisting War received the Martin Diskin Dissertation Award honorable mention from the Latin American Studies Association.
1. Introduction: civilian autonomy in civil war
2. A theory of civilian decision-making in civil war
3. The history of conflict and local autonomy in Colombia
4. Living to tell about it: research in conflict settings
5. How civilian organizations affect civil war violence
6. Why some communities are more organized than others
7. The institution of the ATCC: protection through conciliation
8. Discovering civilian autonomy in Cundinamarca
9. Civilian autonomy around the world
10. Conclusions and policy implications.