The debate on the link between ethnicity and violence has been raging in political science literature since the end of the Cold War. Often, cross-country quantitative studies dismissed the importance of ethnic heterogeneity as a source of violent conflict. How the patterns of ethnic settlement within a country affect the severity of violence, though, has not yet been studied through similar techniques. In this essay, we build and analyse a data set of major violence-related variables collected at the local level during the 1992–1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. What emerges is that the local distribution of the population, in terms of the number and relative size of the groups, is a key factor in explaining the intensity of violence in the Bosnian municipalities.
The patterns of ethnic settlement and violence: a local-level quantitative analysis of the Bosnian War / MORO, FRANCESCO NICCOLÒ; Costalli, Stefano. - In: ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES. - ISSN 0141-9870. - ELETTRONICO. - 34:12(2011), pp. 2096-2114. [10.1080/01419870.2011.556748]
The patterns of ethnic settlement and violence: a local-level quantitative analysis of the Bosnian War
MORO, FRANCESCO NICCOLÒ;
2011
Abstract
The debate on the link between ethnicity and violence has been raging in political science literature since the end of the Cold War. Often, cross-country quantitative studies dismissed the importance of ethnic heterogeneity as a source of violent conflict. How the patterns of ethnic settlement within a country affect the severity of violence, though, has not yet been studied through similar techniques. In this essay, we build and analyse a data set of major violence-related variables collected at the local level during the 1992–1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. What emerges is that the local distribution of the population, in terms of the number and relative size of the groups, is a key factor in explaining the intensity of violence in the Bosnian municipalities.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.