Verbal Attacks on Terrorist Groups Increase Violence Against Civilians

• In Event: Human Rights, Repression, Civilian Victimization, and Political Violence I

Brief Overview

We use Bayesian structural VAR models to analyze daily event data on interactions between ISIS and foreign governments for 2014-2021. Rather than deterring ISIS from attacking civilians, verbal conflict substantially increased those attacks.

Authors

• Iliyan Iliev, University of Southern Mississippi

• Nahrain Bet Younadam, University of Arizona

• Brandon J. Kinne, University of California-Davis