Great reporting from @washingtonpost's @ksieff on how militants, gangs, and mafias are engaging with #COVIDー19 pandemic. What I said: Some groups are filling gaps that governments have left. Some are deeply concerned with protecting their own members. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/coronavirus-taliban-ms-13-drug-cartels-gangs/2020/04/13/83aa07ac-79c2-11ea-a311-adb1344719a9_story.html

Some are performing governance without adding much to public health (e.g., those widespread "street sanitizing" campaigns) & some are leveraging #Covid_19 for their own propaganda campaigns. https://twitter.com/LunaSafwan/status/1244646041682685954?s=20

Having to summarize years of research on these issues shows you who you lean upon intellectually, and the article that framed much of my thinking was, no surprise, a @pstanpolitics classic. Huge public health implications for each mode of wartime order.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41479550?seq=1

Also a good time to engage work like @EduardoMoncad's, especially re: governing arrangements between states, criminal actors, and communities. From the article: Gangs know doctors might be less inclined to treat their ppl., so many enforce lockdowns

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny/cp/2019/00000051/00000003/art00002

And of course, essential to consider how territorial control and different modes of rebel governance could lead to either complimentary public health efforts between states and militants (thinking about @anamarjona's research)... https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=xO6SDQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR12&dq=info:bKTXtJT5YNQJ:scholar.google.com&ots=qQsljb2Nm3&sig=A6SVhtC6_zYQnhXPLm2k5W_RgsE#v=onepage&q&f=false

...not to mention how states, rebels, and INGOs often burden-share public health and service provision efforts ( @Ras_Karya's writing on Sri Lanka echoes strongly here).

https://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Rulers-Insurgent-Governance-Civilian/dp/1501700685