Ayoub, Phillip;
Mironova, Vera;
Whitt, Sam;
(2025)
The Recognition of Shared Suffering After Violence: ISIS Victimization and LGBT plus Support in Mosul Iraq.
Comparative Political Studies
, Article 00104140251328003. 10.1177/00104140251328003.
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Abstract
While scholars have found that conflict-related victimization and exposure to violence can increase concern for the well-being of others, those effects have been largely circumscribed to in-group boundaries. Less clear is whether such empathy ‘born of suffering’ extends to stigmatized groups. We consider the case of public tolerance for LGBT+ people in Mosul Iraq, a city that experienced widespread violence under Islamic State (ISIS) occupation from 2014–2017, including targeted killings of LGBT+ people alongside other marginalized groups. Using original data from a 2021 survey experiment, we find that respondents are more supportive of protections for LGBT+ people when primed about ISIS persecution of LGBT+ groups. We observe that support also rises with experiences of personal victimization by ISIS. Our results speak to how conflict can potentially reduce out-group barriers through recognition of shared experiences of suffering, with implications for public acceptance of LGBT+-inclusive rights and protections in the aftermath of violence.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The Recognition of Shared Suffering After Violence: ISIS Victimization and LGBT plus Support in Mosul Iraq |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00104140251328003 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140251328003 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2025. Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0) This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Political Science, Government & Law, gender, sexuality and politics, conflict processes, human rights, middle east, CONTACT REDUCE PREJUDICE, SEXUAL VIOLENCE, POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH, ALTRUISM BORN, CONFLICT, CONSEQUENCES, GAYS |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10214855 |
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