Seeking Safety: Cognitive and Social Foundations of Civilian Strategies in the Punjab Crisis and Delhi Pogroms

• In Event: Ethnic and Religious Conflict in South Asia

Brief Overview

When survival is on the line, how do people decide what strategies will keep them safe? I explain behavior by focusing on variation in individual cognitive appraisals, measured in novel evidence from historical conflicts in India.

Author

• Aidan James Milliff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology