Aiding and Abetting: Human Rights INGOs and Domestic Protest

Amanda Murdie and Tavishi Bhasin
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Amanda Murdie: Department of Political Science, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA, amurdie@ksu.edu
Tavishi Bhasin: Department of Political Science and International Affairs, Kennesaw State University, GA, USA

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2011, vol. 55, issue 2, 163-191

Abstract: This article studies the effects of human rights international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) on domestic antigovernment protest. Unlike mainstream scholarship, the authors argue that human rights INGOs are not simply the magic bullet in orchestrating nonviolent protests; different types of human rights INGO activity have varying effects on protest. Moreover, some human rights INGO activities may lead to higher levels of violent protest. The empirical tests use new data on the activities of over 400 human rights INGOs and domestic nonviolent and violent protest globally from 1991 to 2004. The authors find that increases in human rights INGO activities reflecting a greater commitment to the domestic population are associated with higher levels of both violent and nonviolent protest.

Keywords: Human Rights; International Non Governmental Organizations; Violent protest; Non-Violence; Protest Diffusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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