@article {3199865,
	title = {Social Cohesion and Violence: Explaining Riots in East Jerusalem},
	journal = {Studies in Conflict \& Terrorism},
	volume = {47},
	year = {2024},
	pages = {1772-1799},
	abstract = {<p>
	Does social cohesion explain variation in violence within divided cities? In line with\&nbsp;insights drawn\&nbsp;from the ethnic politics, criminology and urban geography literature we\&nbsp;suggest that explaining variation in inter-group violence is not possible by relying on\&nbsp;motivational elements alone, and attention to social cohesion is required as well. While\&nbsp;cohesion can facilitate collective action that aids\&nbsp;violent mobilization, it can also\&nbsp;strengthen social order that contributes to the group{\textquoteright}s capability to control and prevent\&nbsp;unrest. We test these relationships using an application of a latent variable model to an\&nbsp;integration of crime data, survey results and expert-coded data in order to measure\&nbsp;cohesion in East Jerusalem neighborhoods. We then analyze its impact on riots using\&nbsp;three original geo-located datasets recording violence in the neighborhoods between\&nbsp;the years 2013-2015. Our results reveal that even with controls for economic and\&nbsp;political\&nbsp;determinants of violence, as well as for spatial clustering and temporal\&nbsp;explanations, neighborhood-level social cohesion is a robust explanatory variable - it\&nbsp;negatively correlates with riots.
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},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2022.2074394},
	author = {Harran-Diman, Amiad and Miodownik, Dan}
}
