The MODEL social structure of an armed group [Elektronisk resurs] From Liberian refugees to heroes of Côte d’Ivoire and liberators of the homeland

• This article investigates the Movement for Democracy in Liberia (MODEL) through a revised Weberian framework that focuses on legitimacy and offers a thick description of the different phases of this armed group. The article argues that the key to fostering cohesion is the harmonization of the micro, meso, and macro levels. This proved a difficult undertaking for the MODEL. Not only did the MODEL lack material resources but it also relied on different and evolving kinds of legitimacy on these levels. With its sources of legitimacy exhausted after the war, the MODEL ceased to exist. 

Ämnesord

Social Sciences  (hsv)

Sociology  (hsv)

Samhällsvetenskap  (hsv)

Sociologi  (hsv)

Krigsvetenskap  (fhs)

Krigsvetenskap  (fhs)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Cohesion

Côte d’Ivoire

cultural sociology of war

insurgency

legitimacy

Liberia

militia

MODEL

social structure

strategy