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Online speech and communal conflict: Evidence from India

Schutte, Karell, & Barrett (2025) • PNAS Nexus

Summary

Draws on 22 million downloaded social media posts to show that both divisive and conciliatory posts affect subsequent levels of communal attacks in India.

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How fear of violence drives intergroup conflict

Schutte, Ruhe, & Sahoo (2023) • Terrorism and Political Violence

Summary

Connects individual-level fear to downstream intergroup attitudes and escalation-related preferences using panel data to show how fear perpetuates conflict.

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Societal determinants of flood-induced displacement

Vestby, Schutte, Tollefsen, & Buhaug (2024) • PNAS

Summary

Shows that hazard exposure alone is not enough: societal vulnerability helps explain when floods translate into displacement, with implications for prevention and protection.

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False inference in spatial conflict event studies

Schutte & Kelling (2022) • PLOS ONE

Summary

Uses Monte Carlo simulation to diagnose common failure modes in spatial event-data inference and motivates practical checks and better default choices.

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Beyond Hate Speech: Online Rumors and Out-Group Resentment in Divided Societies.

Mjelva, M.B., Schutte, S., Binningsbø, H.M., & Jensenius, F.R. (2025) • Comparative Political Studies, 00104140251381753.

Online speech and communal conflict: Evidence from India.

Schutte, S., Karell, D., & Barrett, R. (2025) • PNAS Nexus 4(5), pgaf149.

Societal determinants of flood-induced displacement.

Vestby, J., Schutte, S., Tollefsen, A.F., Buhaug, H. (2024) • PNAS 121(3), e2206188120.

How fear of violence drives intergroup conflict: Evidence from a panel survey in India.

Schutte, S., Ruhe, C., & Sahoo, N. (2023) • Terrorism and Political Violence 35(2), 229–247.

A Monte Carlo analysis of false inference in spatial conflict event studies.

Schutte, S., & Kelling, C. (2022) • PLOS ONE 17(4), e0266010.

How indiscriminate violence fuels conflicts between groups: Evidence from Kenya.

Schutte, S., Ruhe, C., & Linke, A.M. (2022) • Social Science Research 103, 102653.

Climatic conditions are weak predictors of asylum migration.

Schutte, S., Vestby, J., Carling, J., & Buhaug, H. (2021) • Nature Communications 12(1), 2067.

Aid, exclusion, and the local dynamics of insurgency in Afghanistan.

Karell, D., & Schutte, S. (2018) • Journal of Peace Research 55(6), 711–725.

The political legacy of violence: The long-term impact of Stalin’s repression in Ukraine.

Rozenas, A., Schutte, S., & Zhukov, Y. (2017) • The Journal of Politics 79(4), 1147–1161.

Using night light emissions for the prediction of local wealth.

Weidmann, N.B., & Schutte, S. (2017) • Journal of Peace Research 54(2), 125–140.

Violence and civilian loyalties: Evidence from Afghanistan.

Schutte, S. (2017) • Journal of Conflict Resolution 61(8), 1595–1625.

Geographic determinants of indiscriminate violence in civil wars.

Schutte, S. (2017) • Conflict Management and Peace Science 34(4), 380–405.

Regions at risk: predicting conflict zones in African insurgencies.

Schutte, S. (2017) • Political Science Research and Methods 5(3), 447–465.

Geography, outcome, and casualties: a unified model of insurgency.

Schutte, S. (2015) • Journal of Conflict Resolution 59(6), 1101–1128.

Population attitudes and the spread of political violence in sub-Saharan Africa.

Linke, A.M., Schutte, S., & Buhaug, H. (2015) • International Studies Review 17(1), 26–45.

Matched wake analysis: finding causal relationships in spatiotemporal event data.

Schutte, S., & Donnay, K. (2014) • Political Geography 41, 1–10.

Diffusion patterns of violence in civil wars.

Schutte, S., & Weidmann, N.B. (2011) • Political Geography 30(3), 143–152.