Event Oct. 4 - Swords into Ploughshares? Why Human Rights Abuses Persist After Resistance Campaigns

Join us in person or online for this workshop from Dr. Chris Shay of the Human Rights Research and Data Hub.

View this email in your browser Join us for a workshop with Chris Shay Post-doctoral Research Associate University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute Swords into Ploughshares? Why Human Rights Abuses Persist After Resistance Campaigns Tuesday, October 4, 2022 2:00 - 3:30PM Hybrid Event Dodd Center for Human Rights - Room 162 & Zoom Join in person: This event will be held in person with the option to join by Zoom. The workshop will be hosted in the Dodd Center for Human Rights, Room 162   Join on Zoom: Please register to attend at s.uconn.edu/gsuy8q3kbo. About This Event: In this Human Rights Research and Data Hub Workshop, Dr. Chris Shay will present his research on human rights abuse in the context of national crises. Human rights abuse tends to increase during national crises, such as civil wars and mass nonviolent uprisings. Under what conditions does this abuse abate or persist? Shay argues that violent challenges provoke much more coercive state responses – exposing more personnel within the security forces to extreme forms of repression and priming them (both leaders and followers) to reproduce these behaviors after the conflict has terminated. This effect is mitigated or avoided when challengers rely on nonviolent tactics instead of violence, leading to less post-conflict abuse. I test this argument with several quantitative methods, showing that nonviolent resistance campaigns lead to fewer post-campaign political killings and extrajudicial executions than violent campaigns. This effect is partially – but not fully – mediated by democratization: nonviolent methods reduce repression by promoting democratization, but the effect is present even in the absence of democratization (the majority of cases). Results also suggest that democratization cannot fully counteract the repressive legacies of violent conflict. By choosing to specialize in nonviolent tactics, therefore, resistance leaders avoid a repression trap that not even democratization can fully disarm.   This event is sponsored by the Human Rights Research and Data Hub (HuRRD)  at the Human Rights Institute. Register Here To request reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities please contact Alex Branzell at alex.branzell@uconn.edu ABOUT THE HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE The Human Rights Institute (HRI), situated in the University of Connecticut's Office of Global Affairs, is uniquely organized around joint faculty appointments made in partnership with the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, School of Law and School of Business. The Institute advances human rights teaching across the University and pursues novel and critical approaches to human rights scholarship and pedagogy. Copyright © 2022 Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you are affiliated with or have participated in events at the Human Rights Institute. Our mailing address is:  Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut The Dodd Center for Human Rights 405 Babbidge Road U 1205 Storrs, CT 06269-0001 Add us to your address book Unsubscribe from this list  |  Update subscription preferences