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The Year of Living (Slightly) Less Dangerously, Episode 4

2/3/2014

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The Year..:  2014 is the year of ENDKILL.  A 365 day journey into my research archive and active agenda, reflecting on what we know and do not know about mass atrocities and how to stop them (delivered once weekly so as not to burden the viewer/reader/audience).  


The original ideas about repression were largely structural-functionalist in orientation whereby some political-economic-culture system resulted in state-sponsored political violence.  Over time, something more akin to the model to the left has emerged whereby a political authority (principal) develops some policy and then they subcontract out to some coercive agent (i.e., member of the security apparatus) to implement it (the arrows that lead to the targets/victims).  While the idea of the repressive process is important, research has not exactly kept up.    

Accepting that the model above is where the field has gone, Below I list the 5 things that a rigorous investigation of Atrocity Endings must include: 

1) The "Kill" Order
•Plan/Preference:
•Party Manifestos
•Political Speeches
•Government Reports
•Memoirs
•Media Broadcasts

•Source: Political Communication, Cultural Studies

2) Order Diffusion
•Specific Information about Perpetrators
•Identity (name, unit, membership)
•How they receive orders
•How they are connected to political leadership
•How they implement orders

•Source: Security Studies, Criminology, Policing, Military Sociology

3) Victims/Targets
•Pre-violent status (i.e., size, location, resistance level)

•Source: Demography, Health, Public Opinion

4) Event/Campaign Engagement/Process
•Enactment of behavior of Interest (i.e., perpetrator-victim dyad by space/time)
•Range of activity, intensity at time t to t+n

•Sources: Micro-Foundational Research tradition (Ball, Davenport and Stam, Kalyvas, Strauss, Wilkinson)

5) Event/Campaign Termination
•Behavioral termination of campaign (i.e., killing stops)

•Sources: Micro-Foundational Research tradition (Ball, Davenport and Stam, Kalyvas, Strauss, Wilkinson)

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    Christian Davenport's Caveat Civis - Citizen Beware

    Given the elusive nature of state repression, it is crucial to be constantly aware of information as it becomes available.  This is not always easy to do and with the different tactics, perpetrators, locations and victims of domestic spying, torture, arrest, detention, disappearances and mass killing, it is necessary to keep one's eyes open, along with one's mind - Citizen's Beware.  The data is out there.  We just need to find it and figure out what it means.

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