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Discourses on violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua : national patterns of attention and cross-border discursive nodes

Oettler, Anika (contributor) - 2007

grenzüberschreitende Leitmotive, etwa in Bezug auf Jugendgewalt, Korruption und genderbezogene Gewalt. Der Artikel untersucht die …

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Inclusive institutions and the onset of internal conflict in resource-rich countries

Wegenast, Tim C. - 2010

Studien über die institutionellen Determinanten innerstaatlicher Gewalt legen nahe, dass die Präsenz multipler …Studien über die institutionellen Determinanten innerstaatlicher Gewalt legen nahe, dass die Präsenz multipler …

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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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Conflict prevention through natural resource management? : a comparative study

Kuhn, Annegret - 2011

Natural resources are often held responsible for intrastate conflicts. As a consequence, both national and international measures to avoid the detrimental impact of resource endowments have increasingly been discussed and implemented in resource-rich countries. These measures include...

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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

erklärt der Beitrag den überraschenden Wandel in Neu-Delhis Politik gegenüber Sri Lanka: 2007 begann Indien, die srilankische …

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

Mehler, Andreas - 2008

Säuberungen produzieren Kosten: ausgeschlossene Eliten sind oft geneigt, Gewalt anzuwenden, um ins "Speisezimmer" zurückzugelangen …

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Discourses on violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua : youth, crime, and the responses of the state

Peetz, Peter - 2008

The paper analyzes the social construction of youth violence in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador on the one hand, and the related security policies of the three states, on the other. In each country, there is an idiosyncratic way of constructing youth violence and juvenile delinquency....

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Oil in Venezuela: triggering violence or ensuring stability? : A context-sensitive analysis of the ambivalent impact of resource abundance

Kuhn, Annegret - 2009

auch niedrigschwellige Gewalt gefördert; dies vor allem über sozioökonomische Kausalmechanismen (Verfall der Erdölpreise … Delegitimierung der politischen Elite geführt. Ein weiterer zentraler Befund ist, dass der konkrete Einfluss des Erdöls auf Gewalt je … nach spezifischer Form der Gewalt deutlich zu variieren scheint. (GIGA) …

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