I don’t think I’d interpret this pattern to mean that restricting immigration would reduce communal violence. Rather, that places where communal violence is happening may correlate with any number of the side effects of colonialism, including a weakened concept of a nation state due to borders that don’t reflect identity groups.
In other words, the context by which diversity happens may play a role in whether communal violence happens (forced cohabitation versus elected migration). There’s not enough data to sufficiently support either idea, I just want to be clear that I don’t see the evidence to suggest anti-immigration as an effective peacebuilding mechanism.
I don’t think I’d interpret this pattern to mean that restricting immigration would reduce communal violence. Rather, that places where communal violence is happening may correlate with any number of the side effects of colonialism, including a weakened concept of a nation state due to borders that don’t reflect identity groups.
In other words, the context by which diversity happens may play a role in whether communal violence happens (forced cohabitation versus elected migration). There’s not enough data to sufficiently support either idea, I just want to be clear that I don’t see the evidence to suggest anti-immigration as an effective peacebuilding mechanism.