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Replication Data for: Sectarian Framing in the Syrian Civil War

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Replication Data for: Sectarian Framing in the Syrian Civil War
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ACYZIC
 
Creator Corstange, Daniel
York, Erin
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description How do civilians respond to civil war narratives? Do they react to ethnic frames more strongly than to alternatives? Governments and rebels battle for hearts and minds as well as strategic terrain, and winning the narrative war can shift legitimacy, popular support, and material resources to the sympathetically framed side. We examine the effect of one-sided and competing war discourses on ordinary people's understandings of the Syrian civil war -- a conflict with multiple narratives, but which has become more communal over time. We conduct a framing experiment with a representative sample of Syrian refugees in Lebanon in which we vary the narrative that describes the reasons for the conflict. We find that sectarian explanations, framed in isolation, strongly increase the importance government supporters place on fighting. When counterframed against competing narratives, however, the rallying effect of sectarianism drops and vanishes.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Framing
Sectarianism
Civil war
Syria
 
Contributor Corstange, Daniel