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argument by analysing Muslim-Christian violence in the post-Suharto era, combining a new subnational data set of ethno … that the same logic does not apply to lower-scale group violence such as riots, which differ in such a way that …-income and ethnogeographic crosscuttingness with a new and comprehensive subnational data set of violence in Indonesia. Our …
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association between cities, violence, and disorder is not new, however. In a classic article on 'Urbanism as a way of life', Louis … necessarily lead to urban violence. This is a standpoint that is further reinforced by the fact that not all cities around the … heterogeneous individuals give rise to violence, while in others they don't, focusing in particular on wider structural factors as …
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, institutions can work on ethnic conflict by either accommodating (consociationalists) or denying (integrationists) ethnicity in … mostly inconclusive. The following questions remain open: a) Is politicized ethnicity really a conflict risk? b) What impact …
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This paper explores the relationship between household exposure to riots and social capital in urban India using a … covariates to estimate the exogenous effect of riots on social capital. Households living in neighbourhoods prone to riots are … potential future communal violence in socially fragmented contexts where conflicting social groups live alongside each other. …
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Social conflict pervades human society and fulfils a number of essential functions in its development and transformation, including the creation of new norms and institutions. The Historical Social Conflict Database (HiSCoD) is an ongoing project designed to provide to scholars and society at...
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This paper studies the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consideration domestic and … international contextual factors. The case study, which focuses on explaining the increase in violence since the second half of the … the key contextual conditions responsible for violence, the results underline the basic relevance of cultural cleavages …
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marginal cost of violence always reduces violence, while increasing the indiscriminate fixed cost may backfire and result in …
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Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...
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The level of violence in the National Hockey League (NHL) reached its highest point in 1987 and has reduced somewhat … information from several databases 1996-2007, the incentives for violence in North American ice hockey are analyzed. We examine …
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conflict-affected countries. This module will enable researchers to address specific violence-related issues comparatively … survey designs in conflict-affected areas. We review existing conflict- and violence-related questionnaires, with a special … in order to deepen the understanding of the nature of violent conflict and the channels whereby conflict and violence …
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