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McDoom, Omar Shahabudin - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 58 (2014) 5, pp. 865-893

community that experienced violence during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, I show that individual participation in the violence was …

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Managing Threat, Cost, and Incentive to Kill: The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Intervention in Mass Killings

Kathman, Jacob D.; Wood, Reed M. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 55 (2011) 5, pp. 735-760

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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To Kill or to Protect

Colaresi, Michael; Carey, Sabine C. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 52 (2008) 1, pp. 39-67

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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Testing the Double-Genocide Thesis for Central and Southern Rwanda

Verwimp, Philip - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 47 (2003) 4, pp. 423-442

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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Shared Human Rights Norms and Military Conflict

Peterson, Timothy M.; Graham, Leah - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 55 (2011) 2, pp. 248-273

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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Do International Human Rights Treaties Improve Respect for Human Rights?

Neumayer, Eric - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 49 (2005) 6, pp. 925-953

After the nonbinding Universal Declaration of Human Rights, many global and regional human rights treaties have been concluded. Critics argue that these are unlikely to have made any actual difference in reality. Others contend that international regimes can improve respect for human rights in...

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