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Replication data for: From Media Attention to Negotiated Peace: Human Rights Reporting and Civil War Duration.
Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)
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Replication data for: From Media Attention to Negotiated Peace: Human Rights Reporting and Civil War Duration.
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https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/29394
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Burgoon, Brian
Ruggeri, Andrea Schudel, Willem Manikkalingam, Ram |
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Harvard Dataverse
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Violations of human rights in the context of a conflict have in recent years received an increasing amount of attention from the international media. Yet how such media attention influences conflict remains understudied and, a priori, uncertain. On the one hand, media coverage of human rights abuses may constitute ânaming and shamingâ that might temper hostilities. On the other hand, such coverage might spark intransigence and complicate negotiations among conflicting parties, thereby hindering rather than hastening peace. This article tries to adjudicate among these and other possibilities by exploring how media reporting on human rights abuses influences the development of conflicts. The analysis reveals that such reporting is associated with shorter conflicts and negotiated agreements between fighting parties.
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