We explore the impact of the insurgency and military deployment on the livelihoods of local communities in Afghanistan. We use monthly wages and commodity prices at the provincial level over the period 2003–09 and look for their response to conflict events and ISAF deployment. Overall we find...

Can the international community enable conditions for voluntary, safe and sustainable return of displaced people As conflict is key in the decision to leave and to return, this paper investigates whether the deployment of UN peacekeeping operations can reduce the insecurities driving...

This paper analyzes the relationship between youth unemployment and Palestinian violence. First a qualitative explanation of the underlying mechanism is given. Eventually, empirical results suggest that there is a positive association between the growth rate of youth unemployment and the...