Ethnic norms and interethnic violence: Accounting for mass participation in the Rwandan genocide
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A simple mechanism of a behavioral norm defined in ethnic terms, is specified to understand the dynamics of mass participation by reluctant Hutu in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The model emphasizes the role of individual heterogeneity, within-group punishment, behavioral adaptation, group networks, and ethnic entrepreneurs, and generates a set of results on norm formation and change, a number of which are not intuitive.
Publication Name: Journal of Peace Research
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0022-3433
Year: 2006
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Machetes and firearms: The organization of massacres in Rwanda
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The use of modern rather than traditional weapons by the perpetrators to kill individual victims is determined on the basis of individual characteristics of victims and aspects of 1994 Rwanda genocide. Location, commune of residence, age of victim and gender of the victim were the features determining the probability of being killed with a firearm.
Publication Name: Journal of Peace Research
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0022-3433
Year: 2006
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Economic valuations and interethnic fears: perceptions of Chinese migration in the Russian Far East
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This article examines the economic aspects of interethnic relations in the Russian Far East. The author, focusing on the increase in Chinese cross-border migration, maintains the perceptions of economic gains or losses due to ethnic 'others' determine the level of hostility against the ethnic 'others'.
Publication Name: Journal of Peace Research
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0022-3433
Year: 2003
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