Armed conflict as a threat to social cohesion: Large-scale displacement and its short- and long-term effects on in-group perceptions
Journal: Research & Politics
Year: 2024

This study investigates the short- and long-term consequences of armed conflict and displacement on social cohesion among citizens within attacked nations, using Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina as case studies. Through a pre-registered vignette study in Ukraine (December 2022; N = 1,623), we reveal a significant difference in social cohesion between those who stayed in the country during the war and those who left. This difference intensified when those who left did not want to return. A simi