Pedro C. Vicente
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, NOVAFRICA, e BREAD
Inês Vilela
Royal Holloway – University of London, e NOVAFRICA
ISSN 2183-0843
Working Paper No 2008
Setembro 2020
Resumo
Violence perpetrated by radicalized Muslims is a major problem around theworld. We collaborated with the main Islamic authority in Mozambique, which sponsored two randomized interventions to prevent violence related to youthradicalization: a religious campaign against extremist views of Islam, targetingchange in beliefs;and a training module on entrepreneurship and employment, aiming to increase the opportunity cost of conflict. Our measurement focuses on anti-social behavior in a Joy-of-destruction lab game. We find that only the religious treatment decreased the propensity to destroy payoffs of others.Consistently, surveys show increased trust in state and decreased support for extremism.
