INEF-Report
INEF-Report is a series that appears at irregular intervals. It publishes major findings from the institute’s ongoing research projects as well as overview studies on academic and policy debates concerning global issues. INEF Reports are primarily addressed to the research community and students of international relations, but also try to reach out to policy-makers interested in relevant scholarly results
Current Issue
The immediate aftermath of civil wars is a period prone to heightened contention: Political decisions about the distribution of aid or power, for example, can deepen social fault lines and in some instances even result in violent unrest. Yet despite its relevance, our knowledge on the drivers for individual participation in post-conflict contentious activism remains limited. Previous research has found particularly wartime experiences to affect political and social behaviour of individuals in the post-conflict period. Based on these findings, I argue that exposure to civil war violence increases the likelihood for individuals to participate in post-war protests. Moreover, I conjecture that this effect can be explained with the reinforcement of group-based grievances. Using survey data from the Afrobarometer collected shortly after the end of the Ugandan civil war in 2008, I find support for the argument: Results from linear probability models show a consistent and robust relationship between county-level war violence and the likelihood to participate in protests. An additional analysis with a novel measure of group-level exposure and a causal mediation analysis furthermore corroborate the assumed mechanism
Previous Issues
INEF-Report 93/2008: Nuscheler, Franz: Die umstrittene Wirksamkeit der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.
INEF-Report 86/2007: Eberlei, Walter (ed.): Stakeholder Participation in Poverty Reduction.
INEF-Report 74/2004: Böge, Volker: Neue Kriege und traditionale Konfliktbearbeitung.
INEF-Report 68/2003: Weller, Christoph: Perspektiven der Friedenstheorie.
INEF-Report 59/2002: Schade, Jeanette: "Zivilgesellschaft" - eine vielschichtige Debatte.
INEF-Report 58/2002: Nadvi, Khalid / Wältring, Frank: Making Sense of Global Standards.
INEF-Report 45/2000: Maggi, Claudio: Key factors of structural change in North Rhine-Westphalia.
INEF-Report 37/1999: Hamm, Brigitte: Modelle zur Frühwarnung vor humanitären Katastrophen.
INEF-Report 35/1999: Zattler, Jürgen: Das MAI aus entwicklungspolitischer Sicht.
INEF-Report 32/1998: Mürle, Holger: Global Governance. Literaturbericht und Forschungsfragen.
INEF-Report 28/1998: Messner, Dirk / Vobruba, Georg: Die sozialen Dimensionen der Globalisierung.
INEF-Report 26/1998: Messner, Dirk (Hrsg.): Lateinamerika: der schwierige Weg in die Weltwirtschaft.
INEF-Report 22/1997: Mürle, Holger: Entwicklungstheorie nach dem Scheitern der "großen Theorie".
INEF-Report 18/1996: Hamm, Brigitte: Gross Human Rights Violations in 1994.
INEF-Report 11/1995: Hamm, Brigitte / Nuscheler, Franz: Zur Universalität der Menschenrechte.
INEF-Report 10/1994: Braun, Michael: Einwanderungsfrage und Staatskrise in Italien.
INEF-Report 08/1994: Hamm, Brigitte: Menschenrechte für Frauen!
INEF-Report 01/1992: Nuscheler, Franz: Bericht über die internationale Folterforschung.