The Impact of Pro-Government Militias on Human Rights Violations
The Impact of Pro-Government Militias on Human Rights Violations
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亲政府民兵对侵犯人权行为的影响
DOI:
10.1080/03050629.2014.932783
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
Mitchell N
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作者:
Mitchell N
New data show that between 1982 and 2007, in over 60 countries governments were linked to and cooperated with informal armed groups within their own borders. Given the prevalence of these linkages, we ask how such links between governments and informal armed groups influence the risk of repression. We draw on principal-agent arguments to explore how issues of monitoring and control help understanding of the impact of militias on human rights violations. We argue that such informal agents increase accountability problems for the governments, which is likely to worsen human rights conditions for two reasons. First, it is more difficult for governments to control and to train these militias, and they may have private interests in the use of violence. Second, informal armed groups allow governments to shift responsibility and use repression for strategic benefits while evading accountability. Using a global dataset from 1982 to 2007, we show that pro-government militias increase the risk of repression and that the presence of militias also affects the type of violations that we observe.
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