Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Finding Mechanisms to Reduce Violence and Support for Armed Groups

发展方案和改革能否减少暴力，减少对武装团体的支持？这项研究将分析三种不同干预措施对暴力的影响：支持低收入佃农权利和土地所有权的土地改革，这是一个与叛乱有关的群体；保证每个农村家庭有最多100天的个人工资性劳动；以及强制要求处于不利地位的少数族裔在村委会中拥有政治代表权。研究将利用档案和基于调查的数据--在空间和时间上变化--来衡量这些项目对暴力和对政府的民间支持的影响。研究人员在网上和政府办公室收集了微观层面的数据。该项目将资助完成对150个村庄组的约1500户家庭的分层随机抽样调查。通过将报纸上报道的对武装团体行为的测量与收集的其他数据结合起来，这项研究将确定发展倡议是否会影响冲突的结果。该项目将测试有关短期经济激励如何影响暴力冲突、长期经济不平等如何塑造暴力以及政治歧视如何影响内战动态的理论。研究这些大型发展计划的影响对于改善最脆弱人群的生计至关重要，也可能是找到改善内战的非军事战略。

Can development programs and reforms reduce violence and decrease support for armed groups? This research will analyze the impact of three different interventions on violence: land reforms that bolster the rights and land holdings of low-income sharecroppers, a group associated with insurrection; guarantees up to 100 days of individual wage labor for each rural household; and mandated political representation for disadvantaged minorities in village councils. Research will utilize archival and survey-based data -- varying over space and time to measure the effect these programs have on violence and civilian support for governments. The researchers have collected micro-level data both online and in government offices. This project will fund the completion of a stratified random sample survey of approximately 1,500 households across 150 village clusters. By combining measurements of armed group behavior as reported in newspapers with other data collected, this research will determine whether development initiatives affect conflict outcomes.This project will test theories related to how short-term economic incentives affect violent conflict, how long-term economic inequality shapes violence, and how political discrimination impacts the dynamics of civil war. Studying the impact of these large development programs is crucial to improving the livelihoods of the most vulnerable populations, and potentially, finding non-military strategies to ameliorating civil war.