Repression and the Escalation of Violence (RATE)

Research question/goal: 

The objective of this project is to uncover and explain the escalation and non-escalation of repression and intra-state armed conflict by analysing how characteristics of the government and its formal and informal security apparatus shape the dynamics of such violence, paying attention to the role of monitoring and accountability. RATE analyzes when and under what conditions what types of human rights violations lead to the escalation or deterrence of fur- ther repression and armed conflict. It pays particular attention to the delegation of violence to and within formal and informal armed groups and the role of domestic and international mechanisms of monitoring and accountability.

Fact sheet

Funding: 
ERC Starting Grant
Duration: 
2014 to 2019
Status: 
completed

Publications

Journal Articles

Gohdes, Anita R., and Sabine C. Carey (2017): Canaries in the Coal Mine: What the killings of journalists tell us about future repression. Journal of Peace Research, 54, issue 2, pp. 157–174. more
Carey, Sabine C., and Neil J. Mitchell (2017): Progovernment Militias. Annual Review of Political Science, 20, issue 1, pp. 127–147. more
Carey, Sabine C., Michael P. Colaresi and Neil J. Mitchell (2016): Risk Mitigation, Regime Security, and Militias: Beyond Coup-proofing. International Studies Quarterly, 60, issue 1, pp. 59-72. more
Carey, Sabine C., Michael P. Colaresi and Neil J. Mitchell (2015): Governments, Informal Links to Militias, and Accountability. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 59, issue 5, pp. 850-876. more

Other Publications

Carey, Sabine C., and Neil J. Mitchell (2016): Pro-Government Militias and Armed Conflict, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics more
Carey, Sabine C., Michael P. Colaresi and Neil J. Mitchell (2015): The Silk Road to Insecurity: Why Not Public-Private Collaboration in the Security Sector?, Political Violence @ a Glance, http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2015/09/04/the-silk-road-to-insecurity-why-not-public-private-collaboration-in-the-security-sector/ more

Conference Presentations

Gohdes, Anita, and Sabine C. Carey (2015): Canaries in a Coal-mine? Predicting Changes in State Repression with Treatment of the Press. [5th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, June 25th to June 27th, 2015] more
Carey, Sabine C., and Anita Gohdes (2015): Killing bad news: International accountability and the treatment of the press. [Workshop on The Political Economy of Inequality and Conflict, University of Konstanz, July 16th to July 17th, 2015] more
Carey, Sabine C. (2015): Why Governments Use Militias in their Own Countries. [Meeting of Scholarship Holders of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), University of Mannheim, May 08th to May 10th, 2015] more