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Political repression motivates anti-government violence

Henrikas Bartusevičius1,2, Florian van Leeuwen3, Michael Bang Petersen2

  • 1Peace Research Institute Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Royal Society Open Science
|June 16, 2023
PubMed

Keywords:
aggressionanti-government protestcollective actionhuman rightspolitical violencerepression

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