Why do groups want to secede and where are we most likely to see demands for self-determination? This paper proposes an economic explanation whereby a tradeoff between income and sovereignty implies that...
Why is it important to study civil war? Five reasons have been suggested: 'civil war is widespread; it causes tremendous suffering; it almost always affects and involves neighboring states, thereby undermining...
In an earlier study Doyle and Sambanis (2000) showed that United Nations (UN) peace operations have made positive contributions to peace building in the short term, helping parties implement peace agreements...
Earlier studies have shown that United Nations peace operations make a positive contribution to peacebuilding efforts after civil wars. But do these effects carry over to the period after the peacekeepers...
The Collier-Hoeffler (2000) model of civil war onset (henceforth called CH) has been very influential in shaping current research on the relationship between conflict and development. Its main thesis is...
Most wars are now civil wars. Even though international wars attract enormous global attention, they have become infrequent and brief. Civil wars usually attract less attention, but they have become increasingly...
In this paper, the author provides a review of the scope and limits for government and international action to prevent the outbreak of civil war. It includes a brief review of the literature on violent...
This paper is a summary of several papers written in regards to civil war in low-income countries. It draws several comparisons between the other papers and addresses the importance of understanding how...
Civil wars always end, but they usually restart. Globally, with the first ten years of the end of a conflict, 31 percent of them have resumed. African conflicts are even more prone to restart than the...
Quantitative studies of civil war have focused either on war's onset, or its termination, producing important insights into these end points of the process. The authors complement these studies by studying...
Contrary to popular belief, Africa's civil wars are not due to its ethnic and religious diversity. Using recently developed models of the overall prevalence of civil wars in 161 countries between 1960-1999...
The authors combine an empirical model of external intervention, with a theoretical model of civil war duration. Their empirical model of intervention allows them to analyze civil war duration, using "expected"...
Some theorists of ethnic conflict argue that the physical separation of warring ethnic groups may be the only possible solution to civil war. Without territorial partition and (if needed) forced population...