Attitudes for Peace

This project aims to investigate two key relationships:

How do different peacebuilding strategies influence institutional trust in postwar societies?
What is the relation between support for postwar institutions and peace?

Central to both questions is the dynamics between the institutions engineered to build peace – the peacebuilding strategies – and citizens' support for these. We argue that variations in peacebuilding strategies affect how people perceive these institutions, and that these perceptions, in turn, are closely related to whether people will support or participate in violent opposition against the government in the future.

Please see the project page at SINTEF for more elaborate information.

Led by Karin Dyrstad

Members

Wartime Experiences and Popular Support for Peace Agreements: Comparative Evidence from Three Cases

Perceptions of Peace Agreements and Political Trust in Post-War Guatemala, Nepal, and Northern Ireland

Explaining Support for Political Violence: Grievance and Perceived Opportunity

Between Punishment and Impunity: Public Support for Reactions against Perpetrators in Guatemala, Nepal and Northern Ireland

Transitional Justice: What Do the People Want? Views from the ground in Guatemala, Nepal, and Northern Ireland

The Gendered Links between War-Related Trauma and Attitudes to Peace: Exploring Survey Data from Guatemala, Nepal, and Northern Ireland

Perceptions of transitional justice mechanisms in Guatemala, Nepal, and Northern Ireland

Public Support for Peace Agreements: The Cases of Guatemala, Nepal, and Northern Ireland

E pluribus unum, ex uno plures: Competition, violence, and fragmentation in ethnopolitical movements