267 Miguel García Guindo Insurgencies: competition for resources as an explanatory variable INSURGENCIES: COMPETITION FOR RESOURCES AS AN EXPLANATORY VARIABLE Introduction IIn recent years we have been witnesses, in the field of studies into insurgent movements, to how a growing number of scientists defend a stance explaining the nature and the violence committed by these groups; not so much focused on the political and social factors that, at the end of the day, are those that have traditionally dominated the analysis related to the different groups of insurgents, but rather, in addition, those others of an economic nature. This is the paradigmatic case that Paul Collier (2000 and 2003) has made about the trend and overall structure of civil wars, from 1965 to the middle of the nineties. The author concludes that there are issues of a population and wealth distribution nature that promote the origin and promote the existence of this type of conflict, in which insurgent movements proliferate. As the author points out, there are economic benefits (opportunism that generates an economy focused on the short term, the increase in criminality, the alteration of the common market patterns or monopoly situations), guided by the greed of the people involved, which are imposed on those factors that could contribute towards complaints, grievances and collective objections and whose origin lies in divisions of an ethnic or religious type, or as a consequence of the application of repressive policies by the authority in power. The intention of this discourse is to set out a focus that is differentiated from those studies (we are referring especially to those of Collier, Hoeffler and Sambanis) that prefer to explain the violence committed by the rebel movements as a product that is the result of the pillaging by those involved in the conflict. To do this, we start from a different concept, in which violence is sometimes the result of a rational choice that an insurgent group carries out when it sees its survival threatened. Resources and competition The type of relationship that an insurgent group or faction maintains with the po
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