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Oligopolies of violence in post-conflict societies

Lambach, Daniel - 2007

In post-conflict societies, security is provided by a broad range of actors including the state as well as various non-state formations. The paper identifies three types of post-conflict societies and analyses dynamics of the security market in cases where international troops have intervened. A...

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Assets, shocks, and poverty traps in rural Mozambique

Giesbert, Lena - 2010

Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data, for the existence of a poverty trap. Findings...

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Fuel for conflict or balm for peace? : Assessing the effects of hydrocarbons on peace efforts in Algeria

Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010

This paper explores the use of hydrocarbon revenues in post-conflict Algeria. While the bloody years of the 1990s now seem to be over, recurring terror attacks and the ongoing state of emergency leave room for doubt that a situation of stable peace has been achieved yet. It is therefore...

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Why do some oil exporters experience civil war but others do not? : A qualitative comparative analysis of net oil-exporting countries

Basedau, Matthias - 2011

According to quantitative studies, oil is the only resource that is robustly linked to civil war onset. However, recent debates on the nexus of oil and civil war have neglected that there are a number of peaceful oil-rentier states, and few efforts have been spent to explain why some...

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India and the civil war in Sri Lanka : on the failures of regional conflict management in South Asia

Destradi, Sandra - 2010

The paper provides an assessment of India's role in the final years of the civil war in Sri Lanka (2003-2009). In particular, it looks for explanations for India's inability to act as a conflict manager in its own region, which is in contrast to predominant assumptions about the role of powerful...

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Breaking the "insecurity trap"? : How violence and counter-violence are perpetuated in elite power struggles

Mehler, Andreas - 2008

government tries to prevent reentry by all means. This contribution draws a dense picture of elite (in)security in three African … countries (Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia). A comparative analysis of elite security needs and devices is … guards, etc.) in breaking the insecurity trap by providing special elite-protection services is obvious. The record of …

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Religious peace activism : the rational element of religious elites' decision-making processes

Vüllers, Johannes - 2010

Religiöse Eliten engagieren sich in vielen Gewaltkonflikten für Frieden. Normative Rechtfertigungen für ihr Verhalten können dies oftmals jedoch nur unzureichend erklären. Zur Identifizierung von Faktoren für ein Friedensengagement rationaler religiöser Eliten stützen sich die Autoren...

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Reshaping political space? : The impact of the armed insurgency in the Central African Republic on political parties and representation

Mehler, Andreas - 2009

war and the peace process. Patterns of elite behavior are presented as the main explanation for the resulting crisis of … Kriegs- und Friedensprozesses. Verhaltensmuster der Elite werden als wesentliche Erklärung für die daraus resultierende Krise …

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Fighting for a kingdom of God? : The role of religion in the Ivorian crisis

Vüllers, Johannes - 2011

This paper analyzes the role of religion with regard to the violence experienced during the past 20 years in Côte d'Ivoire. It seeks to explain the differences in the level of violence over time by focusing on religion as an identity marker and as a social force that is mobilizable by religious...

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