The debate on the link between ethnicity and violence has been raging in political science literature since the end of the Cold War. Often, crosscountry 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 19921995 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 / Costalli, Stefano; Moro, Francesco N.. - In: ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES. - ISSN 0141-9870. - STAMPA. - 34:(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
COSTALLI, STEFANO;
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, crosscountry 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 19921995 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 FLORE sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.