-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 …

. 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 …We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade …

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