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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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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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rural household survey before the Rwandan genocide (1994). Economic, demographic and agricultural data from an extensive … 1989-1992 survey can be linked with the condition of the household at the time of the Genocide Transition Survey (2000 …). This allows us to study the fate of the household members during the genocide. Our results show that age, sex, the sex of …
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There is an extensive literature on violent conflicts such as the 1994 Rwandan genocide, but few papers examine the … demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the … background were more likely to die. Over and above the human tragedies, a long-term cost of the genocide is the country s loss of …
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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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We study how armed conflicts affected educational outcomes in Rwanda during the nineties, relying on two waves of population census data and on a difference-in-differences identification strategy. Our results indicate that the conflicts caused on average a 22% drop in schooling attainments,...
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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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Although they are arguably the worst violators of human rights, dictators sometimes commit to international human rights treaties like the United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT) to appease their domestic opposition. Importantly, however, executives facing effective judiciaries must...
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