TY  - UNPD
A1  - Pfeifer, Hanna
A1  - Weipert-Fenner, Irene
T1  - Time and the growth of trust under conditions of extreme uncertainty : illustrations from peace and conflict studies
N2  - The article studies civil wars and trust dynamics from two perspectives. It looks, first, at rebel governance during ongoing armed conflict and, second, at mass mobilisation against the regime in post-conflict societies. Both contexts are marked by extraordinarily high degrees of uncertainty given continued, or collective memory of, violence and repression.
But what happens to trust relations under conditions of extreme uncertainty? Intuitively, one would assume that trust is shaken or even substantially eroded in such moments, as political and social orders are questioned on a fundamental level and threaten to collapse. However, while it is true that some forms of trust are under assault in situations of civil war and mass protests, we find empirical evidence which suggests that these situations also give rise to the formation of other kinds of trust. We argue that, in order to detect and explain these trust dynamics in contexts of extreme uncertainty, there should be more systematic studies of: (a) synchronous dynamics between different actors and institutions which imply trust dynamics happening simultaneously, (b) diachronous dynamics and the sequencing of trust dynamics over several phases of violent conflict or episodes of contention, as well as long-term structural legacies of the past. In both dimensions, microlevel relations, as well as their embeddedness in larger structures, help explain how episodes of (non-)violent contention become a critical juncture for political and social trust.
T3  - ConTrust Working Paper Series - No. 3 
KW  - Vertrauen
KW  - civil war
KW  - contentious politics
KW  - Middle East and North Africa
KW  - rebel governance
KW  - social movements
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/71305
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-713058
PB  - ConTrust - Trust in Conflict. Research Centre “Normative Orders” of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -