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Minorities at Risk in Resource-Based Conflicts

Jean-Paul Azam, and Véronique Thelen

Abstract

This paper analyses econometrically the determinants of the violence that some governments inflict on some minorities within their own countries. It first discusses the domestic-level diversionary theory of war of Tir and Jasinski (2008). It argues that their econometric results do not allow them to draw the conclusions that they present, and offers a more satisfactory approach. Using the same data set, but a more satisfactory approach, we show that the domestic-level diversionary theory of war is strongly rejected by the data. The paper then presents a more satisfactory approach, suggesting that foreign aid has some influence on this type of violence, which it reduces marginally.

Reference

Jean-Paul Azam, and Véronique Thelen, Minorities at Risk in Resource-Based Conflicts, 2010.

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Published in

2010