Understanding the spatial variation of perceived threat outcomes in intergroup conflict
A case study of the ethnic and religious conflicts in Jos, Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7732361 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Surulola Eke (0000-0001-7693-8212, Queen's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143-164 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conflict Security and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1467-8802 • E-ISSN: 1478-1174 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14678802.2022.2056390 |
| OpenAlex | W4221098768 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 16 |
In extant scholarship on intergroup conflict, perceived threat is portrayed as either positively linked with conflict occurrence or neutralizable by individuals’ internal psychological inhibitors, such as feelings about a past experience or encounter or pre-existing dovish disposition. Yet, conflict avoidance is possible even in the absence of such internal guardrails against destructive responses to threat. This comparative qualitative study of two similarly structured communities in Jos, Nigeria’s ethnic conflict hotbed, reveals that while perceived threat may create aggressive dispositions, as established in extant scholarship on intergroup conflict, conflict avoidance remains possible in the absence of both internal inhibitors and external coercion. The compared Jos communities, Angwan Doki and Dadin Kowa, are similar in terms of widespread fear of the outgroup and significant willingness to respond aggressively to threat. Yet, conflict avoidance was possible in the latter because its community leaders both wittingly and unwittingly confronted the underlying threat that drove people’s violent dispositions. Past variability analyses omit this dynamic of external malleability of perceived threat outcomes – aggression and violence. Generally, the findings show that low-tech threat management interventions are more effective at mitigating intergroup conflict in weak states than interventions that seek to forcefully suppress the threat
Aggression · Criminology · Ethnic conflict · Ethnic group · Extant taxon · Group conflict · Internal conflict · Outgroup · Political science · Politics · Psychological intervention · Scholarship · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Collective Reactions to Threat
Extinction threat and reciprocal threat reduction
Predicting support for collective action in the conflict between Turks and Kurds
Power and threat in intergroup conflict
Faith-Based Aid to People Affected by Conflict in Jos, Nigeria
The “Hill Refuges” of the Jos Plateau
The Psychology of Threat in Intergroup Conflict
Meaning threat can promote peaceful, not only military‐based approaches to intergroup conflict
Qualitative inquiry and research design
The Impact of Value Similarity and Power on the Perception of Threat
Fighting for the Right to Exist
A General Inductive Approach for Analyzing Qualitative Evaluation Data
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |