Department
Political Science and International Affairs
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-29-2010
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.
Journal Title
Journal of Conflict Resolution
Journal ISSN
0022-0027
Volume
55
Issue
2
First Page
163
Last Page
191
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1177/0022002710374715
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Economic Policy Commons, International and Area Studies Commons, Peace and Conflict Studies Commons
Comments
The pdf is the author's accepted version. The published Sage version can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726710377931