Refugee Related Political Violence in Africa

Lucie Konečná
Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Science, Department of Politology

Abstract

This work focuses on the analysis of one of the most discussed phenomenon of recent years, the reception of refugees. From a moral and ethical point of view, the reception of refugees is the right thing to do, but it can also pose risks for the state. The author of this work examines refugee-related political violence, a phenomenon that has not been explored in the last twenty years. The aim is to describe the occurrence of this phenomenon in cases from Africa. The individual incidents are categorized into six categories of political violence (Attacks between the sending state and the refugees, Attacks between the receiving state and the refugees, Ethnic or factional violence among the refugees, Internal violence within the receiving state, Interstate war or unilateral intervention and last one Attacks between refugees and transnational VNSA). The author describes the type of political violence involving refugees for the last 15 years and also analyze which type of violence is most common, at the same time she devotes to the analysis and description of frequency, intensity, and persistence. She compares the findings with similar work that was published in 1998 and explains why and what changes have occurred in the field of refugee-related political violence over the last 15 years.


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