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Katerina Bezrukova

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Curriculum Vitae

Teaching
  Statistics 215
  I/O Psychology 350
  Methods & Theory 225

Research Projects
 Group Faultlines
 Diversity/Conflict
 Peacekeeping
 Ethnopolitical Conflict


 
 


Katerina Bezrukova, Psychology Department
Rutgers University
A Field Study in Ethnopolitical Conflict Areas

We plan to conduct a field study to test how the basic faultline model maps on to actual situations of ethnopolitical conflict. This study will include three natural experiments carried out in Crimea, Bosnia, Sri Lanka, and Burundi. The field study will be a conservative test of our model in that we will measure ethnic faultlines on two dimensions, race and national heritage, to first parallel the lab study while controlling for class, religion, gender and other potentially influential demographic variables (retaining the data for future analysis of a more complex construct of faultlines including more demographic alignment variables).  In all cases we will measure the levels of conflict as our dependent variable of interest.

Experimental Design Summary Table

 

Exp 1.

High Group Identity

 

Low Group Identity

Exp 2.

Strong Dual Leadership

 

No Strong Dual Leadership

Exp 3.

Strong Coalition Formation

 

Weak Coalition Formation

Potential
Faultlines

Sri Lanka

Crimea

Sri Lanka

Crimea

Sri Lanka

Crimea

Active
Faultlines

 

Bosnia, Burundi

Burundi

Bosnia

Bosnia

Burundi
  Paper