Responding to Terrorism? Human Rights Organization Shaming and Terrorist Attacks

Victor Asal, Kathleen Deloughery and Amanda Murdie

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2016, vol. 39, issue 3, 240-259

Abstract: Why do Human Rights Organizations (HROs) target or “shame” countries for human rights abuses? The literature using country-level factors to explain why one country is likely to be targeted over another is growing but many questions still remain. Terrorist activity in a country should have a positive effect on the amount of shaming directed at a country. HROs are in the publicity business and have organizational interests to shame states already receiving attention. Findings show that there is a connection between certain types of transnational terrorist incidents occur in a country and the amount of HRO shaming of governments, even after accounting for the human rights practices within the state.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2015.1093887

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