{"id":9554,"date":"2013-08-29T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9554"},"modified":"2013-08-29T00:05:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T04:05:56","slug":"will-a-syrian-intervention-help-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/will-a-syrian-intervention-help-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"Will A Syrian Intervention Help Civilians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/082913_0337_WillASyrian1.png\" width=\"637\" height=\"467\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of talk going around about the possibility of intervention in Syria. Erica Chenoweth dug up a research study that looked at what effect that would have on civilian killings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to one study when external actors intervene on the side of rebels during a conflict, government killings of civilians increases by 40%.<\/li>\n<li>This is in part because a foreign military intervention normally weakens the government, making non-violent efforts at suppression less effective. The government then resorts to more violent tactics.<\/li>\n<li>If despite this a humanitarian intervention is still deemed to be justifiable then interveners should alter their strategies to focus on explicitly protecting civilians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/themonkeycage.org\/2013\/08\/27\/do-military-interventions-reduce-killings-of-civilians-in-civil-wars\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/themonkeycage.org\/2013\/08\/27\/do-military-interventions-reduce-killings-of-civilians-in-civil-wars\/\">The Monkey Cage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/08\/assorted-links-896.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of talk going around about the possibility of intervention in Syria. Erica Chenoweth dug up a research study that looked at what effect that would have on civilian killings: According to one study when external actors intervene on the side of rebels during a conflict, government killings of civilians increases by 40%. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/082913_0337_WillASyrian1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9562,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions\/9562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}