This study investigates whether including women in peace negotiations has facilitated lasting peace. We argue that female negotiators and the action of women's civil society groups that advocate for gender-related provisions strengthen peace durability. We contend that genderspecific...

This paper provides a detailed analysis of the use of development spending to sustain peace – conceptualised by the United Nations in 2016 as a holistic approach towards preventing the outbreak, escalation, continuation, and recurrence of conflict. It seeks to clarify the ‘peace’ dimension...

In this paper, we summarize a series of experimental studies that show that democracies don't fight each other because their leaders have very few political incentives to do so. The use of force against other democracies is perceived by the public and by leaders of democratic states as a failure...

Violent environments are known to affect household fertility choices, demand for health services and health outcomes of newborns. Using administrative data with a difference-in- differences, we study how the end of the 50 years old Colombian conflict with FARC modified such decisions and...

I study the limits of mediated conflict resolution when: states have incentives to misrepresent private information; mediators may have limited capacity to enforce agreement; and political leaders in crisis bargaining situations are subject to domestic constraints. With a mechanism design...

Scholarship identified the present and future of war as increasingly characterized by urbanization and political-economic actors that Western international assistance defines as "illicit", "illiberal" or "criminal". This article asks how Western international assistance could and should shape...

Peace has been deemed paramount to socioeconomic progress and economic development across nations. It is for this reason nations strive to improve the peaceful coexistence of citizens. This study investigates the effect of democracy, governance and militarisation on peace in 43 African countries...