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Diversity and violence during conflict migration: The Troubles in Northern Ireland

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  • Adida, Claire L.
  • Brown, Joseph M.
  • McCord, Gordon C.
  • McLachlan, Paul

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Diversity's effect on violence is ambiguous. Some studies find that diverse areas experience more violence; others find the opposite. Yet conflict displaces and intimidates people, creating measurement challenges. We propose a novel indicator of diversity that circumvents these problems: the location of physical structures at disaggregated geographical levels. We introduce this solution in the context of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Our data reveal a curvilinear relationship between diversity and conflict-related deaths, with the steepest increase at low diversity, driven by an increase in violence when our proxy for the Catholic proportion of the population rises from 0 to 20 percent. These patterns are consistent with a theory of group threat through exposure.

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  • Adida, Claire L. & Brown, Joseph M. & McCord, Gordon C. & McLachlan, Paul, 2023. "Diversity and violence during conflict migration: The Troubles in Northern Ireland," Political Science Research and Methods, Cambridge University Press, vol. 11(3), pages 451-467, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:pscirm:v:11:y:2023:i:3:p:451-467_1
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