Blood Revenge and Violent Mobilization: Evidence from the Chechen Wars
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F15%3A10312791" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/15:10312791 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00219#.Vll2WUtQbLQ" target="_blank" >http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00219#.Vll2WUtQbLQ</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ISEC_a_00219" target="_blank" >10.1162/ISEC_a_00219</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Blood Revenge and Violent Mobilization: Evidence from the Chechen Wars
Original language description
Despite a considerable amount of ethnographic research into the phenomena of blood revenge and blood feud, little is known about the role of blood revenge in political violence, armed conflict, and irregular war. Yet blood revenge-widespread among many conflict-affected societies of the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond-is not confined to the realm of communal infighting, as previous research has presumed. An empirical analysis of Russia's two counterinsurgency campaigns in Chechnya suggests that the practice of blood revenge has functioned as an important mechanism in encouraging violent mobilization in the local population against the Russian troops and their Chechen proxies. The need to exact blood revenge has taken precedence over an individual's political views, or lack thereof. Triggered by the loss of a relative or humiliation, many apolitical Chechens who initially sought to avoid involvement in the hostilities or who had been skeptical of the insurgency mobilized to exact
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AD - Political sciences
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Security
ISSN
0162-2889
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
40
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
158-180
UT code for WoS article
000365538500005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84948969190