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This paper explores the causes of displacement during civil wars. Recent scholarship has shown that conventional civil … stronger than the other – exhibit different patterns of violence. We hypothesize that, while the mode of violence differs, the … form of displacement should be consistent across the wars: displacement is a tactic of war that armed groups use to conquer …
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Populations displaced as a result of mass violent conflict have become one of the most pressing humanitarian concerns of the last decades. They have also become one salient political issue as a perceived burden (in economic and security terms) and as an important piece in the shift towards a...
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The purpose of this paper is to identify the determinants of displacement behavior based on various push and pull … violence. …
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In this paper, I study how displacement of parents during a violent conflict affects investment in their children … about the future of displaced parents. The finding implies that the disadvantage of displacement might be carried on to the …
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This paper investigates the causal impact of non-state armed groups on local institutions during the armed conflict in Colombia, and tests competing theoretical mechanisms that may shape such effect. Our identification strategy is based on the construction of contiguous-pairs of rural...
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Conflict is either caused by, or brings about, drastic changes in the underlying social relationships between members of a community involved in the conflict. The conflict literature has taken note, and a growing number of studies attempt to determine the relationship between conflict and social...
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We analyse the effect of violence and rebellion on the evolution of household welfare. We collected new panel data for … on the effect of civil war, we find that villagelevel violence, measured as the number of battle-related deaths or …
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Recent research on violence against civilians during wars has emphasized war-related factors over political ones. For … that levels of prewar electoral competition explain variation in levels of direct violence from both the left and the right … whereby subsequent levels of violence are highly correlated with initial levels of violence. I argue that the mechanism behind …
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conflict-affected countries. This module will enable researchers to address specific violence-related issues comparatively … survey designs in conflict-affected areas. We review existing conflict- and violence-related questionnaires, with a special … in order to deepen the understanding of the nature of violent conflict and the channels whereby conflict and violence …
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