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How does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the … legacies of armed conflict and the differences between those who stayed in their communities of origin during the conflict …
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We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in … results in a large and significant decline in Hindu-Muslim conflict. The average result is driven by richer states and those … curbing civil conflict. …
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We analyse rural household livelihood and children’s school enrolment decisions in a post-conflict setting in the … show that heightened subjective perceptions of future violence and past actual experiences of conflict influences current … theories of risk. Furthermore, a post-conflict household-level Phoenix or economic revival factor may be in operation, based in …
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polarization, a key mechanism theorized as increasing the chances of violent conflict, remains less understood. We argue that … periods and embedded experiments. We find a society with great levels of affective polarization in that pro- and anti …
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We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …km-by10km grid cell-level data on conflict in a spatial regression discontinuity design framework, we show that areas … conflict management, led to a sharp surge in attacks against state targets in frontier areas. We show that the surge in …
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Under what conditions can legacies of past violence shape political behaviour? We propose a theory of how war victimization defines attitudes over the long run, and how these can be activated by changes in the political environment. We argue that exposure to violence by members of a different...
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When does organized crime resort to assassinating politicians? In narcocracies, criminal groups co-opt political elites through bribery in exchange for protection to traffic illegal drugs. When criminal groups compete, they may also resort to political violence to influence which candidate wins...
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Mali long seemed a model, low-income democracy. Yet, in a few short weeks in early 2012, more than half of the territory came under the military control of an Islamist secessionist movement, and a military coup deposed the democratically-elected government in the capital. Given the substantial...
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We study the impact of electoral gender quotas in post-war Burundi and Rwanda on women's political representation. First, we look at descriptive representation by studying the number of female representatives and the prestige of their positions in the legislative and executive branches of...
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Wartime sexual violence is widespread across conflict zones and thought to leave a disastrous legacy for survivors … sexual violence are fraught with severe data limitations. Based on individual-level survey evidence from three conflict …
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