How Does Violence Force Displacement during Active Conflict? : Evidence from the Republic of Yemen
The ways in which violence forces displacement are not well understood given difficulties in collecting data during conflict. This paper investigates this issue during the Republic of Yemen's conflict, which has led to a large forced displacem...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099248409142234868/IDU02d67cce7026bc04199082d50d9f9bb6c0332 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/38024 |
| Summary: | The ways in which violence forces
displacement are not well understood given difficulties in
collecting data during conflict. This paper investigates
this issue during the Republic of Yemen's conflict,
which has led to a large forced displacement crisis. First,
it demonstrates that violence significantly escalated
leading up to and following displacement in the districts
from which displaced households fled, and this escalation
exceeded that of households that did not become displaced
and that of regions to which displaced households moved.
Second, the paper demonstrates that the escalation of
violence around the time of displacement varied by type of
violence. Violence from ground battles escalated leading up
to and following displacement- the type of violence with the
largest number of fatalities per violent incident and that
is most associated with the capture of territory; but other
prevalent types of violence either peaked prior to
displacement or did not appear to be strongly associated
with displacement. And third, it demonstrates that there was
a significant amount of heterogeneity in the violence
experienced by households before displacement. A significant
share of displaced households fled during times of no
violence, but violence escalated in the regions from which
these households fled following displacement. The paper
argues that the last result is likely explained, in part, by
these households being more averse to potential violence
than other Yemeni households were. Combined, these results
corroborate that violence is pivotal to forced displacement,
but further illustrate the complexities of deciding whether
and when to become displaced. |
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