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Communal Violence

Communal Violence is a form of political violence rooted in collective identity conflicts between socially distinct groups, distinguished by its basis in perceived ethnic, religious, or cultural antagonisms that drive targeted violence against members of an out-group.

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25K

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645

Authors

298

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2017–2026

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485

War and local collective action in Sierra Leone

John Miguel Bellows, Edward Miguel · Journal of Public Economics · 2009 · 1.1K citations

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Climate change, rainfall, and social conflict in Africa

Cullen S. Hendrix, Idean Salehyan · Journal of Peace Research · 2012 · 547 citations

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The Public Nature of Private Violence.

Demie Kurz, Martha Albertson Fineman, Roxanne Mykitiuk · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1995 · 538 citations

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Modeling civil violence: An agent-based computational approach

Joshua M. Epstein · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2002 · 507 citations

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Civil War and Social Cohesion: Lab‐in‐the‐Field Evidence from Nepal

Michael Gilligan, Benjamin Pasquale, Cyrus Samii · American Journal of Political Science · 2013 · 459 citations

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Authors

645

  1. CT
    Charles Tilly

    Columbia University, United States

    7 publications · 1K citations

    7

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  2. AV
    Ashutosh Varshney

    John Brown University, United States

    5 publications · 238 citations

    5

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  3. JK
    Jana Krause

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    4 publications · 190 citations

    4

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  4. CW
    Chris Wilson

    University of Auckland, New Zealand

    3 publications · 58 citations

    3

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  5. WB
    Ward Berenschot

    Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Netherlands

    3 publications · 184 citations

    3

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Institutions

298

  1. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    9 h-index

    9 publications

    512 citations

  2. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    275 citations

  3. Uppsala University

    Uppsala, Sweden

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    1.3K citations

  4. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    462 citations

  5. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    369 citations

  6. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    339 citations

  7. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    186 citations

  8. Peace Research Institute Oslo

    Oslo, Norway

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    437 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 15 publications · 1.3K citations

    15

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  2. Journal of Peace Research

    11 publications · 1.3K citations

    11

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  3. Journal of Conflict Resolution

    9 publications · 674 citations

    9

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  4. The Journal of Asian Studies

    JAS · 7 publications · 504 citations

    7

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  5. Modern Asian Studies

    7 publications · 366 citations

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