esector and allocate military reosurces between conflict and coercion, which captures more land and labour respectively. The … monopoly, but conflict between Spanish and Portuguese colonies escalated during the boom, reducing their coercive power. It …. With land the valueable factor of productions, violence was allocated to conflict, not coercion. …

“mendaciously” pass for a member of another) to revisit the correlation between natural resources and the onset of conflict. The … true for linguistic and religious fractionalization. This is consistent with the “greed hypothesis” as a driver of conflict … resources on conflict is ambiguous. …

conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat points) is … identified. The theory predicts conflict to be more likely when the geographical distribution of natural resources is uneven and … when a minority group has better chances to win a secessionist rather than a centrist conflict. For sharing rents, resource …

We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade …

beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other group. Since conict disrupts trade, the onset of a conflict signals … each conflict episode. Third, "accidental" conflicts that do not reect economic fundamentals can lead to a permanent … breakdown of trust, plunging a society into a vicious cycle of recurrent conflicts (a war trap). The incidence of conflict can …

mining activity on the probability/intensity of conflict at the local level. This is both true for low-level violence (riots … conflict. We also find that seccessionist insurgencies are more likely in mining areas, which is in line with recent theories … of secessionist conflict. …