@article{ref1,
title="Geographic determinants of indiscriminate violence in civil wars",
journal="Conflict management and peace science",
year="2017",
author="Schutte, Sebastian",
volume="34",
number="4",
pages="380-405",
abstract="What determines the type of violence used by military actors in civil wars? Drawing on Kalyvas's &quot;information problem&quot; and Boulding's &quot;loss of strength gradient&quot;, this paper proposes a simple model of how the violence becomes more indiscriminate as a function of distance from the actors' power centers. The proposed mechanism is a growing inability of the actors to distinguish between collaborators of the adversary and innocent bystanders. Tested on the conflict event level for 11 cases of insurgency, the results indicate that a simple distance-decay mechanism can explain the occurrence of indiscriminate violence to a large extent.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0738-8942",
doi="10.1177/0738894215593690",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0738894215593690"
}