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Replication Data for: Retribution or Reconciliation? Post-Conflict Attitudes Toward Enemy Collaborators

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Title Replication Data for: Retribution or Reconciliation? Post-Conflict Attitudes Toward Enemy Collaborators
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0ONBF6
 
Creator Kao, Kristen
Revkin, Mara R.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Armed groups seeking to govern territory require the cooperation of many civilians, who are widely perceived as enemy collaborators after conflict ends. The empirical literature on attitudes toward transitional justice focuses heavily on fighters, overlooking more nuanced understandings of proportional justice for civilian collaborators. Through a survey experiment conducted in an Iraqi city which was controlled by the Islamic State, we find that variations in the type of collaboration an actor engages in strongly determines preferences for punishment and forgiveness. While exposure to violence is associated with a greater desire for revenge, perceived volition behind an act—a relatively unstudied factor—is much more important. This research provides unique empirical data on the microfoundations of enemy collaborator culpability. By widening our analytical lens to consider a more realistically broad spectrum of enemy collaboration, we avoid affirming a false dichotomy between victims and perpetrators that is commonly adopted in post-war settings.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Post-conflict
Transitional justice
Punishment
Reintegration
Islamic state
Peace-building
Reconciliation
Forgiveness
 
Date 2021-09-13
 
Contributor Kao, Kristen