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“Children of Violence: Victims in the Shadow of Conflict”
Experiences of political violence sometimes shape the political identities of victims and their descendants. But there is a great deal of variation across contexts. What kinds of experiences of violence do and do not leave lasting intergenerational effects on the political identities of victims and their descendants? We argue that different contexts and types of violence have different kinds of effects, and we focus especially on the roles of blame attribution and ethnic targeting. We test our argument by comparing evidence from four multigenerational surveys we fielded in Crimea, Cambodia, and Guatemala, as well as additional survey data from two cross-national survey projects on conflict experiences.
WSP Visiting Scholar (fall 2023) Noam Lupu is Associate Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Party Brands in Crisis (2016) and co-editor of Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies (2019)