Terrorist violence within a single conflict can vary in coordination level

Evidence

Throughout the twentieth century and beyond, for example, Northern Ireland experienced plenty of terror, but at times its violence has moved from high to low coordination (Hart 1998; Jarman 1997; Keogh 2001; Lavery 2001a, 2001b). In the widespread terror of Colombia and Chechnya, kidnapping for revenge or ransom has become a favorite tactic of clandestine actors that are also carrying on sustained military action; highly coordinated and less coordinated forms of violence complement each other (Ramirez 2001; Tishkov 2001). Both the organization and the personnel of terror vary widely. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 826

Categorization

• XREF: Coordination not being fixed to one actor-type pushes against the ‘conspiratorial network’ frame — supports the reader’s interest in whether organizational structure itself tracks political opportunity rather than being intrinsic to terror. — connects to: Coordinated violence ranges from improvised to centrally scripted — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 725; Civil war and terror are causally heterogeneous, not unitary phenomena — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 789; Low- and high-coordination violence complement each other within sustained campaigns — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 826
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 826

Broader Connections

• Low- and high-coordination violence complement each other within sustained campaigns #expands (0.92) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 826