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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258671
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386704
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Evolución Estrategica del Conflicto Armado en Colombia
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543485
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008623464
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873551
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186606
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Understanding Terrorism from an Economic perspective
Haldar, Tanushree - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Terrorism has emerged as a major threat to the contemporary society. Nation States are reliant on their counter-terrorism … laws for checking terrorism and deterring terrorists. To understand the effectiveness of these counter terrorism laws, it … economic perspective, then will try to explore if there are any economic determinant of terrorism and finally, since the cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259312
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Impact of Terrorism on Financial Markets of Pakistan (2006-2008)
Gul, Tayyeba Gul; Hussain, Anwar Hussain; Bangash, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The study is an effort to estimate the impact of terrorist activities on the financial markets in Pakistan over the period of two years i.e. 2006 to 2008. It also finds out the extent and direction of relationship between the terrorist activities and three financial markets of Pakistan, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260862
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Cycles of violence and terrorist attacks index for the State of Arizona
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
terrorism over the U.S. economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260309
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The nature, sources and the socio-economic effects of terrorism in Balochistan
Zaman, Nadeem Uz; Ghutai, Gul; Khan, Kaneez Raza - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Terrorism has badly affected Pakistan and Balochistan is one of its worst – hit provinces. There is no research that … accounts for the nature, sources and effects of terrorism on Balochistan; this study, thus, tried to explore the same. A sample … sample of Quetta city. The results indicated that the nature of terrorism in Balochistan is, at first, Political and is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652023