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community that experienced violence during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, I show that individual participation in the violence was …
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Contemporary studies of genocide have found military capabilities to be inconsistent predictors of state …. We hypothesize that unconstrained leaders are more likely to use their putative security forces to initiate genocide and … remain in power. An analysis of state failures that lead to genocide robustly supports the idea that the effect of increased …
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Results of a research project with household-level data on the demographic impact of genocide and civil war in Rwanda … household survey project before the genocide. The absolute number of Hutu killed in the sample is half of the number of Tutsi …
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How do third-party interventions affect the severity of mass killings? The authors theorize that episodes of mass killing are the consequence of two factors: (1) the threat perceptions of the perpetrators and (2) the cost of implementing genocidal policies relative to other alternatives. To...
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The normative transfer thesis posits that systematic discrimination, inequality, and repression are indicative of violent norms within states, which extend to the realm of foreign policy. In this article, the authors contend that the pacifying influence of similarity conditions the impact of...
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Given the myriad of human rights abuses that occur globally and daily, why are some nations on the receiving end of a substantial amount of international opprobrium, while others receive far less attention and condemnation? The authors contend that the increasing presence of human rights...
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