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Replication data for: The Human Rights Peace: How the Respect for Human Rights at Home Leads to Peace Abroad

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Title Replication data for: The Human Rights Peace: How the Respect for Human Rights at Home Leads to Peace Abroad
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6W5W8V
 
Creator David Sobek
M. Rodwan Abouharb
and Chris Ingram
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Respect for human rights represents self-imposed restraints on the behavior of a government. These limits signify both a domestic norm and a state that has decided to settle political disputes through nonviolent methods. When these governments interact in the international system, we suspect that their basic norms of behavior will remain and generate relatively peaceful interactions. We test this contention on pairs of all states from 1980 to 2001 and find that joint respect for human rights decreases the probability of conflict. This relationship is maintained even when one controls for the effect of democracy and its influence on the human rights record of states.
 
Date 2006