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that the same logic does not apply to lower-scale group violence such as riots, which differ in such a way that … argument by analysing Muslim-Christian violence in the post-Suharto era, combining a new subnational data set of ethno …-income and ethnogeographic crosscuttingness with a new and comprehensive subnational data set of violence in Indonesia. Our …
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analysis of large-scale violent conflict with other forms of violence, instability, fragility, and humanitarian crises. …
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experienced cycles of violence between the 1960s and 1980s. Can such violence be explained by legacies of mobilization during … fascism? We study whether and how the Italian fascist experience of the 1920s affected political violence during the 1970s and … regime-predicts neofascist political violence at the provincial level more than 40 years later. New windows of opportunity …
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The lack of political representation often lies at the origin of identity-based violence, and, when not resolved, can … re-ignite violence. We study who perceives gains and losses in political representation in Rwanda and Burundi and why. We … both countries, we observe a sharp drop in perceived political representation in the run-up to and during violence, and a …
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We investigate the impact of childhood exposure to organized criminal violence on sociopolitical attitudes in Mexico … institutions, interpersonal trust, and vote choice. To assess the impact of violence exposure on these attitudes, we construct … confrontations from the municipality where they grew up. Our findings indicate that exposure to both types of violence during the …
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India. We code data on Hindu-Muslim violence and Muslim political representation in India and leverage quasi …
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Following the abolition of slavery, various forms of compulsory labour were adopted by colonial powers to develop their economies. This paper analyses the contemporary consequences of compulsory cotton production-a forced labour system that operated in colonial Mozambique from 1926 to 1961....
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development and provides considerable resources to reduce armed conflicts. However, other forms of violence, such as suicide …, homicide, and assault, are vastly more prevalent and far more widely distributed across countries than armed conflict. For some … time, scholars in the field of public health have been arguing for putting selfdirected and interpersonal violence higher …
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This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children … partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …
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Can we predict when and where violence will break out within cases of genocide? Given often weak political will to … contemplating intervention. I develop a theoretical model to help identify areas vulnerable to violence during genocide. I argue … strength of society's cohesion below. Violence will be delayed in areas where political and military resistance to the center …
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