Arbeitspapier
Preparing for genocide: Community work in Rwanda
How do political elites prepare the civilian population for participation in violent conflict? We empirically investigate this question using village-level data from the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. Every Saturday before 1994, Rwandan villagers had to meet to work on community infrastructure, a practice called Umuganda. This practice was highly politicized and, in the years before the genocide, regularly used for spreading political propaganda. To establish causality, we exploit cross-sectional variation in meeting intensity induced by exogenous weather fluctuations. We find that an additional rainy Saturday resulted in a five percent lower civilian participation rate in genocide violence. These results pass a number of indirect tests of the exclusion restriction as well as other robustness checks and placebo tests.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2015:1
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Africa; Oceania
- Thema
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Conflict
Rainfall
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bonnier, Evelina
Poulsen, Jonas
Rogall, Thorsten
Stryjan, Miri
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Uppsala University, Department of Economics
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Uppsala
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2015
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-242293
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bonnier, Evelina
- Poulsen, Jonas
- Rogall, Thorsten
- Stryjan, Miri
- Uppsala University, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2015
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