to conflict and civil war. Ethnographic accounts suggest that in segmentary lineage societies, which are characterized by … individuals. We test for this link between segmentary lineage and conflict across 145 African ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa …-documented relationship between adverse rainfall shocks and conflict within Africa is only found within segmentary lineage societies …

, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may … radicals. Our results demonstrate the importance of the choice of the institutions of conflict, as modeled by the contest …

conflict and more intense fighting …

preferences for public goods and redistributive policies, and its impact on the degree of fractionalization and polarization …

We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the …, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases … of conflict. In equilibrium, allocations are non-monotonic in the cost of mobility. Moreover, limited commitment with …

on the technologies of conflict within each battlefield and the nature of economies or diseconomies in how battlefield … out-comes and costs aggregate in determining payoffs in the overall conflict …