unrest. The role of race and ethnicity in the riots is one of the factors that has been discussed, although it has received …The riots of August 2011 have led to renewed discussion about the conditions that help to shape outbreaks of urban … relatively little attention when compared to earlier riots in 1981 and 1985. This paper argues that it is important to avoid easy …

quantitatively large and robust to a number of control variables, alternative measures of violence, and different statistical … ethnic violence depend on the ethnic fractionalization. Fighting has a negative effect on the economic situation in highly …

The present study tested the relationships between macro-level violence and birthweight in structurally disadvantaged … communities in the District of Columbia. The study hypothesized that both rates of violence and violence “uncertainty” (the latter … was operationalized as within-census tract residual change scores in violence), should be inversely associated with …

"Post-Election Violence" (PEV). However, after a subsequent process of reconciliation, the PEV came to an end within a …

, however, one would be hard pressed to prove the primacy of the Internet in their transition to violence. More often than not … and political violence in Southeast Asia. This paper revisits these kinship linkages as well as quasi-kinship ones that …

nearly twelve times less probable in societies where ethnicity is crosscut by socioeconomic class, geographic region, and …

Christian, 13 percent are Hindus and a little over 4 percent are Muslims as obtained in the Census 2001. In this study we … undermined by I2 are given their due representation in I1. A perusal of the index (I1) reveals that while the Christian segment … of population in the rural areas of Meghalaya is certainly better off than their Hindu or Muslim counterparts, they score …

organizations to socio-economic welfare in Kenya. The studystarts by exploring the history of Christian and Muslim religions in …

The paper examines fertility differentials among the three religion groups, Hindu, Muslim and Christian, and trends in …