The education backlash: How assimilative primary school education affects insurgency in areas of ethnic conflict

Tugba Bozcaga and Asli Cansunar

No wp-2023-50, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Education is a public service, assumed to be highly valued by citizens, allowing politicians to use it to reward their co-ethnics. However, nation-states have also used education to create loyal citizens, leaving politicians in times of heightened threat of ethnic mobilization. This study investigates whether assimilatory national public investments in ethnic minority areas induce violence.

Keywords: Education; Social mobilization; Assimilation; Insurgency; Ethnic conflict; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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