Data and Code for: The Reach of Radio - Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Alex Armand, Nova School of Business and Economics - Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Paul Atwell, Department of Political Science and Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan; Joseph Flavian Gomes, UCLouvain

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Project Citation:

Armand, Alex, Atwell, Paul, and Gomes, Joseph Flavian. Data and Code for: The Reach of Radio - Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-04-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114903V1

Project Description

Summary:

This project provides data and code for the replication of the paper "The Reach of Radio:

Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization". The paper examines the role of FM radio in mitigating violent conflict. The authors collect original data on radio broadcasts encouraging defections during the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency. This constitutes the first quantitative evaluation of an active counterinsurgency policy that encourages defections through radio messages. Exploiting random topography-driven variation in radio coverage along with panel variation at the grid-cell level the paper identifies the causal effect of messaging on violence. Broadcasting defection messages increases defections and reduces fatalities, violence against civilians, and clashes with security forces. Income shocks have opposing effects on both the conflict and the effectiveness of messaging.

Funding Sources: Ramon Areces Foundation (Spain) (Grant "Radio Messaging and Armed Group Behavior")

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Conflict; Radio; Defection; Media; LRA; Strategy; Armed group

JEL Classification:
      D74 Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
      D89 Information and Uncertainty: Other
      N47 Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Africa; Oceania

Geographic Coverage: DR Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda

Time Period(s): 1/1/2008 – 12/31/2015

Data Type(s): event/transaction data; geographic information system (GIS) data; survey data

Methodology

Response Rate: N/A

Sampling: N/A

Data Source: Data sources are multiple. These are described in detail in Appendix A of the paper “The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization”.

Scales: N/A

Weights: N/A

Unit(s) of Observation: The main units of observation are grid cells of 0.125° × 0.125° resolution

Geographic Unit: The geographic unit is a grid cell of 0.125° × 0.125° resolution. The geographic extent of the analysis is defined using a rule based on the geographic distribution of LRA-related events during the 1997–2015 period. See Appendix B.2 of the paper “The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization”.

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V2 [2021-12-16]

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