-reinforcing process between conflicts and ethnic cleavages. -- Conflict ; Trust ; Ethnic Fighting ; Uganda ; Social Capital ; Identity …. Using individual and county-level data, we document causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of … intense fighting decreases generalized trust and increases ethnic identity. The effects are quantitatively large and robust to …

increasingly independent of ethnic identity. In this paper I argue that ethnic discrimination by the warring factions became too …