IPOR survey appeared in Journal of Conflict Resolution (JCR)
The Institute for public Opinion Research (IPOR) survey appeared in Journal of Conflict Resolution a research Journal published in USA. The topic of study was “What Shapes Civilian Beliefs about Violent Events? Experimental Evidence from Pakistan” by Daniel Silverman.
The survey used in this study was fielded across Pakistan in December 2014 by the Institute for Public Opinion Research, an experienced survey firm based in Islamabad. The data were collected with a multistage stratified random sample of 1,000 respondents drawn from the entire adult (eighteen or older) population of Pakistan “proper,” including the four provinces of Punjab, Sindh, KP, and Baluchistan.
The study result shows that the beliefs are most driven by the perpetrator’s identity and civilians’ own
preexisting attachments. While actual casualty levels matter too, these findings suggest that civilians’ beliefs about conflict events are often deeply biased in nature.
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