Competing for Legitimacy provides policy and practitioner recommendations relevant to government leaders, civil society activists, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners. The recommendations explore how this book's theory and findings can ignite questions, spark debate, and challenge current thinking. This book does not seek to challenge the hugely important research on political violence over the last thirty-plus years. Instead, this book aims to contribute to shifting the social contract and related concepts of legitimacy, resilience, and trust from being assessed on the margins of political violence and societal change more broadly, to having a more central role in the analysis, policies, and interventions. Recommendations for consideration for policy and development interventions include incorporating an increased understanding of legitimacy—particularly the role of shared values and appropriateness; further exploring conflict prevention and how to strengthen societal cooperation and trust; and overcoming an overly narrow “good-bad” dichotomy between government and armed groups. Insurgency literature could benefit from refining insurgency contracting, understanding the relationship between insurgency social contracts and political orders, and exploring the role of self-defense groups as security providers in fragile contexts.