The impact of criminal prosecutions during intrastate conflict
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3916308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoff Dancy (0000-0002-4397-7204, Tulane University, corresponding author), Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm (0000-0001-7710-8501, University of Arkansas at Little Rock) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-61 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peace Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022343317732614 |
| OpenAlex | W2774654869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 58 |
The International Criminal Court's interventions have prompted debate about the wisdom of criminally prosecuting combatants while attempting to build peace in conflict-ridden societies. Previous research fails to distinguish between different types of trials. Using a large-N dataset of three types of criminal trials undertaken during internal conflict - domestic security trials of rebels, domestic human rights trials of state agents, and international war crimes trials of both - this article tests a theory of the compellent effect of criminal prosecution on conflict termination. We find that, even when accounting for endogeneity, rebel trials are associated with a higher probability of conflict termination, while trials of state agents are weakly associated with conflict persistence. We argue that the former compel the opposition to discontinue fighting, while the latter signal to rebels a lack of government resolve. We also find that the effect of international trials, which at times appear weakly associated with conflict termination, is endogenous to international intervention more generally
Armed conflict · Criminology · Economics · Endogeneity · Government (linguistics) · International conflict · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · State (computer science) · Gender, Security, and Conflict · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology
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Syrian diaspora mobilization for prospective transitional justice in the absence of transition
Depoliticizing rebels
Human rights organizations and transitional justice agenda-setting
Building Pathways to Peace
Natural resource rents and political violence
Threats and Commitments
Accountability by Numbers
The Logic of Transitional Justice and State Repression
From Political Violence to Political Trust? How Transitional Justice Affects Citizen Views of Government
Justice as fairness or retribution? Citizen reactions to domestic trials of wartime violence
Global Prescriptions
Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law
Stay the Hand of Vengeance
The justice cascade
Dying to Win
Peace and War
Courting democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
War and Reconciliation
Post-Conflict Justice And Sustainable Peace
Compliant Rebels
Closing the Books
My Neighbor, My Enemy
A Global Measure of Judicial Independence, 1948–2012
Can international interventions secure the peace
Managing Expectations
Delivering Lasting Peace, Democracy and Human Rights in Times of Transition
The Impact of International Tribunals and Domestic Trials on Peace and Human Rights After Civil War
Transitional Injustice
To Prosecute or Not to Prosecute
Uganda's Civil War and the Politics of ICC Intervention
Trials and Errors
Targeting Top Terrorists
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Beyond Impunity
The Lord’s Resistance Army Case
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Competition, Differentiation, and the Severity of Terrorist Attacks
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Back to the Future
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It Takes Two
Bargaining and the Nature of War
The Role of Domestic Opposition and International Justice Regimes in Peaceful Transitions of Power
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The Political Economy of Death Squads
Can the International Criminal Court Deter Atrocity
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War as a Commitment Problem
Human Rights Prosecutions and Autocratic Survival
Law and Politics in Transitional Justice
Leader Incentives and Civil War Outcomes
The Propaganda of the Deed
When Heads Roll
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Introducing the Civil Wars Mediation (CWM) dataset
How and when armed conflicts end
Armed Conflict 1946-2001
Armed conflict and post-conflict justice, 1946-2006
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The Pitfalls of Universal Jurisdiction
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Beyond Nuremberg
| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2027 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |