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Researching human rights violations: Assessing research-related stress among research assistants

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251370495?af=R

Published: December 11, 2025 04:27

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. How does participating in research on difficult topics affect research staff? While investigations of research-related stress (RRS) have increased in recent years, most are focused on researchers’ direct…

The conditions for reducing electoral violence through constitutional reform

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251371834?af=R

Published: November 21, 2025 05:34

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. 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…

Not-so-average after all: Individual vs. aggregate effects in substantive research

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251341805?af=R

Published: November 20, 2025 07:07

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. In non-linear models, the effect of a given variable cannot be gauged directly from the associated coefficient. Instead, researchers typically compute the average effect in the population to assess the substantive…

Don’t blame it on ethnicity: The role of group identities and climate risks in farmer–herder relations in Senegal

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251361301?af=R

Published: November 6, 2025 01:06

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. In the Sahel region, disputes between farmers and herders are often linked to religious, ethnic, and resource conflicts. Farmer–herder relations are put under pressure by negative out-group perceptions and…

State repression and elite support for international human rights: Evidence from South Korean legislators’ democratization experiences

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251360904?af=R

Published: November 5, 2025 11:52

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. Are politicians who have previously experienced human rights violations more supportive of promoting human rights abroad? Much of the literature on human rights advocacy has centered on actors at the international…

Explaining election violence: A meta-analysis

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251360191?af=R

Published: November 4, 2025 06:53

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. The literature on election violence lacks a consistent set of core predictors for why certain elections are violent and others are not. Between 2010 and 2022, 97 scholars published 65 peer-reviewed journal…

Careful what you promise: Executive constraints and conflict recurrence

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251345392?af=R

Published: October 24, 2025 04:26

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. A substantial fraction of all intrastate conflict onsets are recurrences of previously active conflicts. Recent studies suggest that constitutional arrangements that constrain executive power limit the risk of…

Why voters (sometimes) punish repression

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251360971?af=R

Published: October 24, 2025 04:24

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. How does repression influence democratic leaders’ performance in elections? When weighing rights protections against other issues, I expect voters to punish candidates who advocate repression of in-group members…

Introducing the Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools (TJET) database

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251360200?af=R

Published: October 24, 2025 04:19

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. The TJET project offers a comprehensive database for exploring the supply of transitional justice (TJ) in every country of the world. TJET provides detailed descriptive information on domestic, foreign, and…

Does shaming make non-compliance with international court rulings costlier? Evidence from China

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251360203?af=R

Published: October 22, 2025 11:50

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. Can naming and shaming reduce domestic public support for a government that fails to comply with an international court ruling? While existing research suggests that such tactics can diminish public support for…