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Replication Data for: Can Appeals For Peace Promote Tolerance and MiWgate Support for Extremism? Evidence from an Experiment with Adolescents in Burkina Faso

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Title Replication Data for: Can Appeals For Peace Promote Tolerance and MiWgate Support for Extremism? Evidence from an Experiment with Adolescents in Burkina Faso
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TOBMYV
 
Creator Nomikos, William
Grossman, Allison
Siddiqui, Niloufer
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Recent efforts to improve attitudes toward outgroups and reduce support for extremists in violent settings report mixed results. Donors and aid organizations have spent millions of dollars to amplify the voices of moderate religious figures to counter violent extremism in West Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Despite this investment, we know little about whether such messaging persuades the primary recruits of violent extremist organizations: at-risk youth in fragile settings. In this paper, we consider whether pro-peace religious messaging can promote social cohesion among school-age respondents in Burkina Faso. Using a survey experiment, we find little evidence that such messages affect reported attitudes or behaviors towards religious extremism and find instead that it can have the unintended effect of increasing intolerance towards ethnic others. Our findings carry lessons about the inadvertent priming of ethnic identities that can result in a backlash effect among certain societal segments.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Nomikos, William