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Violent Repression Of Environmental Protests, Helen M. Poulos, Mary Alice Haddad
Violent Repression Of Environmental Protests, Helen M. Poulos, Mary Alice Haddad
Mary Alice Haddad
As global sea levels and natural resource demands rise, people around the world are increasingly protesting environmental threats to their lives and livelihoods. What are the conditions under which these peaceful environmental protests are violently repressed? This paper uses the random forest algorithm to conduct an event analysis of grass- roots environmental protests around the world. Utilizing a database of 175 grassroots environmental protests, we found that: (1) a large proportion (37 %) of the protests involved violent repression; (2) most of the violence (56 %) was directed against marginalized groups; and (3) violence was geographically concentrated the global south …