Ghosts of the Black Decade

How legacies of violence shaped Algeria's Hirak protests

Bibliographic Data

ID4922158
AuthorsM Tahir Kilavuz (0000-0002-3827-3827, Marmara University), Grewal (0000-0003-4563-5301, Department of Government, College of William & Mary, corresponding author), Robert Kubinec (0000-0001-6655-4119, New York University Abu Dhabi)
Year2023
Volume60
Issue1
Pages9-25
Publication date2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Peace Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00223433221137613
OpenAlexW4319788479
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited33

Episodes of mass political violence, such as genocide and civil war, have been thought to both encourage and discourage future political mobilization. We square these competing hypotheses by disaggregating between protest onset and resilience. We argue that exposure to mass violence decades ago should on average decrease protest onset, by heightening fears of repression and retribution. However, conditional on protesting, prior exposure to violence should increase protest longevity, by generating greater political grievances that fuel commitment to the cause. We find evidence of both effects in Algeria during the 2019-20 Hirak protests that toppled President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Pairing an original dataset on massacres during the 1990s civil war with a rolling online survey of 18,000 Algerians in 2019-20, we find that areas exposed to greater violence in the 1990s had on average fewer, but more committed, protesters in 2019-20

Criminology · Genocide · Political economy · Political repression · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Psychological resilience · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · White (mutation) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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