Simon Hug1 2
Université de Genève
CefES, Università degli
Studi di Milano-Bicocca
, Sandra Penic3
Université de Genève
First version: August 2015,
this version: Oct 13, 2021
The Political Economy of
Democracy and Dictatorship conference (Münster, February 24-26th, 2022)
The consequences of one-sided violence on inter-ethnic relations
The consequences of one-sided violence on inter-ethnic relations4
Abstract
Recent research emphasizes that individuals in war-torn societies are
affected differently by several forms of violence. Especially, the
distinction among acts of one-sided violence between targeted and
non-targeted ones has been theorized to affect individuals
differently. While one-sided violence is expected to reduce
interpersonal trust and trust in governmental institution more
generally, targeted one-sided violence should be even more
detrimental, especially if carried out by government actors. Drawing
on a large set of surveys and information on perpetrators and targets
of one-sided violence we assess these expected effects empirically,
drawing on variation both across time and space. Our results are in line with the hitherto largely
anecdotal findings that
targeted one-sided violence has nefarious consequences, well beyond
those of violence more generally.
1 Introduction
1 Département de science politique et relations
internationales, Université de Genève, 40 Bd du Pont d'Arve,
1211 Genève 4; Switzerland, phone +41 22 379 83 78, email:
simon.hug@unige.ch.
2 CefES research fellow, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
3 Département de science politique et relations
internationales, Université de Genève, 40 Bd du Pont d'Arve,
1211 Genève 4; Switzerland, email: Sandra.PenicJunge@unige.ch
4We greatly appreciated Andreas Wimmer for making his data data available, as well as Nils-Christian Bormann for giving us access to a file linking EPR-groups to groups in various surveys. Some similar research tasks were accomplished by Elise Clerc, which we also gratefully acknowledge.
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