The paper provides an assessment of India’s role in the final years of the civil war in Sri Lanka (2003-2009). In …

into an outright civil war in which the antagonists’ affiliations and identities are increasingly framed in sectarian … accord that ended Lebanon’s long-lasting civil war (1975–1990) by dividing power among religious communities. Others rejected … the devastating civil war in Syria and for preventing the further spread of violence into neighboring countries. …

Algeria’s intrastate war in the 1990s, during which militant Islamists and the state fought fiercely against each other …

Syrian civil war. We also use satellite images of the earth at night to measure spatial variations in access to electricity …

under which the failure of mediation leads to an escalation of civil war. Based on the literature on bargaining, we argue … plausibility test carried out for Norway’s failed mediation in the Sri Lankan civil war confirms the usefulness of our model. In …

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 oilexporting countries have experienced civil war and others have not …