Question

Pertaining to this article below can you answer question 4 below?

Article evaluation The assigned article is Jason Lyall, “Does Indiscriminate Violence Incite Insurgent Attacks? Evidence From Chechnya,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 53, No. 3, June 2009Preview the documentView in a new window

4. Has the researcher chosen an appropriate unit of analysis, given his research question and purposes? What is the unit of analysis? Is it clearly identified and consistently used throughout the assigned pages of the research report? (Here make sure to consider the conclusion of the report as well.)

Answer 1

Note: This response is in UK English, please paste the response to MS Word and you should be able to spot discrepancies easily. You may elaborate the answer based on personal views or your classwork if necessary. Also, this paper isn’t available online for free and so the response is based on the abstract. Therefore, you will have to answer the part about the constancy and conclusion by yourself.

(Answer) Unit of analysis: Correlation through secondary research analysis of the artillery fire at Chechnya and how the event was related to occurrences in villages that were and were not exposed to indiscriminate attacks.

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to find the relation between insurgent attacks and crime that are indiscriminate. The author tries to look at nuanced attacks, for instance, non-affiliated hate-crimes in small towns or a single area. He focuses on the nature of such attacks by trying to find if the collective animosity results in the culmination of an insurgency. The author tries to find out if there is a direct or an indirect relationship between the haphazard small crimes and larger organised demonstrations of hate. He uses the Russian artillery fire in Chechnya as an allegory or case-study to analyse the hypothesis.