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The geography of justice: neighborhood dynamics of war crimes trials 司法的地理：战争罪审判的邻里动态

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Journal of Peace Research Pub Date : 2026-05-08 DOI: 10.1093/jopres/xjag034

Sam R Bell,Risa Kitagawa

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Hate to lose more than love to win: relational status decline and interstate conflict 恨输多于爱赢：关系地位下降和国家间冲突

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Journal of Peace Research Pub Date : 2026-05-06 DOI: 10.1093/jopres/xjag029

Seulah Choi

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Develop the countryside to stabilize the cities: the downstream effects of rural development assistance in Afghanistan 发展农村以稳定城市：阿富汗农村发展援助的下游效应

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Journal of Peace Research Pub Date : 2026-04-24 DOI: 10.1093/jopres/xjag025

Andrew J Glubzinski

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Introducing the Coercive Recruitment of Adults Dataset (CROAD), 1990–2021 介绍成人强制招募数据集（CROAD）， 1990-2021

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Journal of Peace Research Pub Date : 2026-04-04 DOI: 10.1093/jopres/xjag026

Nina M Cadorin

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Researching human rights violations: Assessing research-related stress among research assistants 研究侵犯人权：评估研究助理的研究相关压力

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Journal of Peace Research Pub Date : 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1177/00223433251370495

Dara Kay Cohen, Cassy Dorff

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The conditions for reducing electoral violence through constitutional reform 通过宪法改革减少选举暴力的条件

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Journal of Peace Research Pub Date : 2025-11-21 DOI: 10.1177/00223433251371834

Gudlaug Olafsdottir

{"title":"The conditions for reducing electoral violence through constitutional reform","authors":"Gudlaug Olafsdottir","doi":"10.1177/00223433251371834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433251371834","url":null,"abstract":"Constitution-making is promoted by the international community as a means to encourage democratization and peaceful politics. However, there is a dearth of studies investigating the conditions under which constitutional replacement can induce such positive outcomes. Notably, many constitutional reforms enhance the power of semi-autocratic leaders or institutionalize democratic backsliding. Since party representatives often participate as negotiators in constitution-making processes, and political parties are key perpetrators of electoral violence, this study suggests that constitutional reform can constrain electoral violence if the process involves negotiated agreement between political elites and the reform includes measures that increase executive constraints. I test this claim through a matched analysis of 155 constitutional reforms from 1946 to 2015. The analysis shows that constitutional replacements that result from negotiated agreements between representatives of distinct groups and constrain the executive’s ability to enact a state of emergency are associated with lower levels of ensuing government-perpetrated violence. By contrast, these measures have no association with electoral violence carried out by non-government actors, suggesting that reform of formal institutions may be less effective in constraining violence by other actors in society. The findings have significant implications for the design of constitution-making processes that promote peaceful government conduct while highlighting the need for alternative measures to constrain other electoral violence.","PeriodicalId":48324,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Peace Research","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145575737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Not-so-average after all: Individual vs. aggregate effects in substantive research 毕竟不那么平均：实质性研究中的个体与总体效应

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Journal of Peace Research Pub Date : 2025-11-20 DOI: 10.1177/00223433251341805

Marius Radean, Andreas Beger

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Don’t blame it on ethnicity: The role of group identities and climate risks in farmer–herder relations in Senegal 不要把它归咎于种族：群体认同和气候风险在塞内加尔农牧民关系中的作用

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Journal of Peace Research Pub Date : 2025-11-06 DOI: 10.1177/00223433251361301

Alexandra Krendelsberger, Francisco Alpizar, Lotje de Vries, Han van Dijk

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State repression and elite support for international human rights: Evidence from South Korean legislators’ democratization experiences 国家镇压与精英对国际人权的支持：来自韩国立法者民主化经验的证据

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Journal of Peace Research Pub Date : 2025-11-05 DOI: 10.1177/00223433251360904

James D Kim

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Explaining election violence: A meta-analysis 解释选举暴力：一个元分析

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Journal of Peace Research Pub Date : 2025-11-04 DOI: 10.1177/00223433251360191

Richard W Frank

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