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2024 • Journal Article • Political Science Research & Methods
Atypical violence and conflict dynamics: evidence from Jerusalem
AbstractWhat is the impact of uncommon but notable violent acts on conflict dynamics? We analyze the impact of the murder of a Palestinian child on the broader dynamics of Israeli-Palestinian violence in Jerusalem. By using novel micro-level event data and utilizing Discrete Fourier Transform and Bayesian Poisson Change Point Analysis, we compare the impact of the murder to
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16 Aug 2023 • Journal Article • Journal of Conflict Resolution
Legacies of survival: Historical violence and ethnic minority behavior
AbstractHow is the electoral behavior of minorities shaped by past violence? Recent studies found that displacement increases hostility between perpetrators and displaced individuals, but there has been paltry research on members of surviving communities. We argue that the latter exhibit the opposite pattern because of their different condition. Violence will cause cross-generational
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13 Aug 2023 • Journal Article • Comparative Political Studies
Bloody Pasts and Current Politics: The Political Legacies of Violent Resettlement
AbstractHow does living on property taken from others affect voting behavior? Recent studies have argued that benefiting from historical violence leads to support for the far right. We extend this fledgling literature with new theoretical insights and original data from Israel, using case-specific variation in the nature of displacement to uncover heterogeneous treatment effects
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5 Jun 2023 • Journal Article • Peacebuilding
Seeing peace like a city: local visions and diplomatic proposals for future solutions
AbstractViolently contested cities are at the heart of ethnonational conflicts, and their final status is often a central issue for peace negotiations. These negotiations, typically led by national politicians and diplomats, include little, if any, representation of local voices, which are often fundamentally different from those of state-centric actors. This article integrates
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Jun 2023 • Journal Article • Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
Spontaneous contact and intergroup attitudes in asymmetric protracted ethno-national conflict: East Jerusalem Palestinian students in an Israeli academic setting
AbstractIn recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of East Jerusalem Palestinian students studying at Israeli higher education institutions in Israel and in preacademic preparatory programs. This study examines how spontaneous encounters with Jewish students while attending an Israeli academic institution are associated with young East Jerusalem
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30 May 2023 • Journal Article • Urban Studies
Leadership repertoire and political engagement in a divided city: The case of East Jerusalem
AbstractDo the leaders of minority communities in divided cities influence group members’ expressed willingness to engage politically with rival groups? Studies typically link group members’ willingness to engage with rival groups to direct contact between individuals from opposing groups. However, such contact is problematic in divided cities, wherein opportunities to interact
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1 Aug 2022 • Journal Article • Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
Social Navigation of Asylum Seekers: Journeying through Host/Transit Countries amid Changing Political Conditions
AbstractThis study explores one of the least studied components of forced migrants’ journeys—the internal political conditions of the host/transit countries. Using the social navigation approach, we demonstrate how these conditions influence the progress or halt of migration journeys of asylum seekers. We interviewed asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan about their journey
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27 Jun 2022 • Journal Article • Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
Social Cohesion and Collective Violence: Latent Variable Approach to Explaining Riots in East Jerusalem
AbstractDoes social cohesion explain variation in violence within divided cities? In line with insights drawn from the ethnic politics, criminology and urban geography literature we suggest that explaining variation in intergroup violence is not possible by relying on motivational elements alone, and attention to social cohesion is required as well. While cohesion can facilitate
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Jun 2022 • Journal Article • Journal of Global Security Studies
What Happens to Peace When the Process is Stalled: Competing International Approaches to the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict, 1996–2021
AbstractDoes an ongoing stalemate in a peace process affect the international agenda toward the conflict and international perceptions about policies that should be adopted to resolve it? We provide a tentative answer to this question by drawing insight from analysis of developments and trends in international media attention to key terms and concepts in the context of the
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27 Jan 2022 • Journal Article • Journal of Urban Affairs
Leadership development in divided cities: The Homecomer, Middleman, and Pathfinder
AbstractGroup leaders play a vital role in divided cities, particularly in local problem-solving and in everyday contestations. Their role as negotiators makes them perfectly positioned to promote urban processes for the group to which they belong but also raises questions regarding their loyalty. Seeking to understand these individuals’ thinking, this study asks how leaders
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