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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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insecurity and experiencing violence. Our study is based on surveys conducted by the Asia Foundation from 2014 to 2021 across 34 … income and happiness. Additionally, we find a negative association between fear of insecurity, experiencing violence, and … have experienced violence, the probability of having a high level of happiness declines by about 3.8% points when compared …
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I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of murder in the United States (1900-2004). Separating out permanent from cyclical murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in...
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States, in their conflicts with militant groups embedded in civilian populations, often resort to policies of collective punishment to erode civilian support for the militants. We attempt to evaluate the efficacy of such policies in the context of the Gaza Strip, where Israel's blockade and...
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Current military doctrine emphasizes the importance of development spending in reducing insurgent violence. Using data … insurgent-initiated events, this article explores whether development aid in Afghanistan is violence-reducing. I find that … violence in Iraq—small CERP projects—does not appear to do so in Afghanistan. Possible reasons include troop strength …
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Privatization of violence and international interventions to stop wars are two recent trends in wars. Both affect how …
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militaristic dimensions of governance and nation-building in Namibia, emphasizing the links between the legacy of armed violence …
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We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent …
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Recent advances in political science and economics highlight the role of historical events in shaping contemporary political and economic outcomes. This article joins the growing literature by utilizing disaggregated data and mediation analysis to explore the causal mechanisms bridging ethnic...
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This study examines the causal effect of the violent "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests in Iran during the last quarter of 2022 on individual life satisfaction. To evaluate the impact, we use two original representative surveys in Iran conducted in 2022. Our results, based on an ordered logit...
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