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La información y el rumor en zonas de conflicto

Fernando, Estrada - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Information sources, creation of informant networks and labors of local intelligence have become very important goals in political power calculations of the paramilitary and insurgents. Phenomena of information and rumor can disclose central aspects to understand the direction of events yet to...

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Vicious Circle of Insurgency and Underdevelopment in North East India

Nayak, Purusottam; Bhattacharjee, P.R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The present paper is an attempt to assess the nexus between insurgency and underdevelopment in North East India. To … region are narrated. The impact of insurgency on infrastructure, industry including petroleum and tea, and environment are … then analyzed. The origin and persistent existence of ethnic separatism in the form of insurgency is explained through the …

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Vicious Circle of Insurgency and Underdevelopment in North East India

Bhattacharjee, PR; Nayak, Purusottam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

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New Wars in Numbers. An exploration of various datasets on intra-state violence.

Rigterink, Anouk S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

has the violence against civilians over the period 1989-2010. Evidence on the participation of non-state combatants is …

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Diamonds and violence in Africa. Uncovering relationships and mechanisms.

Rigterink, Anouk S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper investigates whether an increase in the international price of diamonds impacts violent activity in African countries that are diamond abundant and if so, through which mechanism(s). It concludes that an increase in the diamond price is positively related to violence in countries...

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Youth Bulge and Mid-Life Moderation: Large Cohort Size Effects, Economic Perspectives and Civil Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Ludwig, Markus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

I argue that large youth cohorts consisting of males aged 15--19 increase the risk of civil conflict, by boosting the pool of potential recruits (PR) along the extensive (cohort size) and intensive (marginalization) margin. As these large cohorts transit out of the pool of PR in their mid-40s,...

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The logic of violence in the civil war: the economics perspective

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling / Nozick / Gambetta. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author's scientific output. A...

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The logic of the violence in the civil war: the armed conflict in Colombia

Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the Logic of Violence in the Civil War. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author's scientific output. A context of conflicts that includes new expressions of...

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How Bad Governance Led to Conflict: The Case of Swat, Pakistan

Adnan, Rasool - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The paper presents an alternative narrative to the what led to conflict in the once peaceful Swat Valley in Pakistan. The widely discussed view has been that Talibanization is what led to the conflict but this paper argues that it was in fact bad governance over a period of time that led to this...

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The relationship between multidimensional poverty and armed conflict: the case of Antioquia, Colombia

Loaiza, Osmar; Muñetón, Guberney; Vanegas, Gabriel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper analyzes the relationship between poverty and armed conflict in Antioquia, Colombia. The poverty analysis is framed within Sen’s capability approach, which forms the conceptual basis of the multidimensional poverty index (Alkire and Foster, 2011). The MPI is measured with data from...

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