Geographic determinants of indiscriminate violence in civil wars
| Type of Publication: | Journal article |
| Publication status: | Published |
| URI (citable link): | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-0-382445 |
| Author: | Schutte, Sebastian |
| Year of publication: | 2017 |
| Published in: | Conflict Management and Peace Science ; 34 (2017), 4. - pp. 380-405. - ISSN 0738-8942. - eISSN 1549-9219 |
| DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0738894215593690 |
| Summary: |
What determines the type of violence used by military actors in civil wars? Drawing on Kalyvas’s “information problem” and Boulding’s “loss of strength gradient”, this paper proposes a simple model of how the violence becomes more indiscriminate as a function of distance from the actors’ power centers. The proposed mechanism is a growing inability of the actors to distinguish between collaborators of the adversary and innocent bystanders. Tested on the conflict event level for 11 cases of insurgency, the results indicate that a simple distance-decay mechanism can explain the occurrence of indiscriminate violence to a large extent.
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| Subject (DDC): | 320 Politics |
| Link to License: | Terms of use |
| Bibliography of Konstanz: | Yes |
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SCHUTTE, Sebastian, 2017. Geographic determinants of indiscriminate violence in civil wars. In: Conflict Management and Peace Science. 34(4), pp. 380-405. ISSN 0738-8942. eISSN 1549-9219. Available under: doi: 10.1177/0738894215593690
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