New Horizons of Violence, Peace and Instability Research

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Why do States employ forced disappearances? Does experiencing violence during and after a peace process undermine public support for peace? Why do we often see group polarization based on ethnic, religious, or sectarian differences after conflict? And when do individuals acquire civil documentation in post-conflict environments?

Motivated by these questions, the papers on this panel present new research on the causes and consequences of violence, peace, and instability, focusing primarily on intrastate conflicts. These papers examine various forms of intrastate violence, including targeted abduction and killing of civilians, and its impact on different outcomes such as support for peace, salience of identities and acquiring civil documentation, across a wide range of contexts, including Colombia, Mexico, Bosnia and Iraq. Employing diverse data sources and methodologies, these papers collectively provide fresh insight into why and how actors use violence in intrastate conflicts—and the effectiveness of international and local interventions to reduce violence and build peace.

Sub Unit

• Division 21: Conflict Processes

Individual Presentations

• Collective Targeting of Violence and Identity Shift: Evidence from Bosnia - Chris Price, James Madison University; Sule Yaylaci, Georgetown University

• Individual Decisions to Obtain Civil Documentation in Post-conflict Societies - Sigrid Weber, Immigration PolicyLab, Stanford University; Ala Alrababah, Bocconi University; Alexandra Hartman, UCL

• Who's to Blame? Postconflict Violence and Public Attitudes towards Peace - Frank Wyer, Naval Postgraduate School

• Authoritarian Rebel Governance and Failed Socialization in Tolima, Colombia - Daniel Raoul Hirschel-Burns, Princeton University

• (Non-)State Authority and Legitimate Violence: A Survey Experiment in Nigeria - Tore Wig, University of Oslo; Hanne Fjelde, Uppsala University; Megan Turnbull, University of Georgia; Kristen Kao, University of Gothenburg

Chair

• Isabel Laterzo-Tingley University of Texas, Austin

Discussants

• M.P. Broache University of North Carolina at Greensboro

• Ana Paula Pellegrino Georgetown University

• Michaela Mattes UC-Berkeley