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Zimbabwe - The Antecedents of Genocide:
1. Political upheaval: We found that high magnitudes of previous internal wars and regime crises over a period of 15 years increased the risk of genocide during or after a new state failure by nearly two times.
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1. Political upheaval: We found that high magnitudes of previous internal wars and regime crises over a period of 15 years increased the risk of genocide during or after a new state failure by nearly two times.
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2. Prior Geno-Politicide: The risk of new episodes during or after a state failure was more than three times greater when state failures occurred in countries that had prior geno-politicides.
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3. Elite Ideology: Countries in which the ruling elite adhered to an exclusionary ideology were two and a half times more likely to have a geno-politicides.
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4. Regime Type: Failures in states with autocratic regimes were three and a half times more likely to lead to geno-politicides than failures in democratic regimes.
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5. Ethnic and Religious Cleavage:.
Risks of geno/politicide were two and a half-times more likely in countries where the political elite was based mainly or entirely on an ethnic minority.
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Risks of geno/politicide were two and a half-times more likely in countries where the political elite was based mainly or entirely on an ethnic minority.
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6. International Interdependence: The sixth variable is a substitute for international connectedness. Countries with low trade openness had two and a half times greater odds of having state failures culminating in geno-politicide.
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