@article{ref1,
title="Internally Displaced Populations and Suicide Terrorism",
journal="Journal of conflict resolution",
year="2016",
author="Choi, S.-w. and Piazza, J.A.",
volume="60",
number="6",
pages="1008-1040",
abstract="This study asserts that countries with large internally displaced populations (IDPs) are more likely to experience a higher rate of suicide terrorism. After demonstrating this, the study tests four intervening factors hypothesized to drive the relationship between IDPs and suicide attacks: IDPs are expected (1) to increase the pool of potential suicide recruits, thereby lowering the labor costs for suicide terrorist groups; (2) to increase local ethnic conflicts that foster a favorable environment for suicide terrorism; (3) to worsen the human rights conditions in countries, prompting aggrieved people to support suicide terrorist tactics; and (4) to raise the counterterrorism and policing costs of the state, enabling terrorists to plan and execute suicide attacks. <br><br>RESULTS from negative binomial regression and Tobit models show evidence for the IDPs-suicide terrorism connection. When recursive models are employed to evaluate the effects of four intervening variables, the results most consistently support human rights violations as a significant and substantive mediator between IDPs and suicide attacks. © 2014, © The Author(s) 2014.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-0027",
doi="10.1177/0022002714550086",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022002714550086"
}