Brandsch, J., & Python, A. (2020). Provoking ordinary people: The effects of terrorism on civilian violence. Journal of Conflict Resolution, .
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Indiscriminate violence against civilians is a recurrent phenomenon in armed conflicts. However, from a social science perspective this type of violence poses a puzzle. Government and non-government indiscriminate violence is often assumed to have counterproductive effect and to be ultimately... more
This article theorizes and empirically investigates the link between ethnic divisions and terrorist attacks on a local scale. We argue that terrorists in ethnic contexts can use two separate provocation strategies: one targeting the government and one targeting opposing ethnic groups in order to... more