The consequences of successful public health interventions for social violence and conflict are largely unknown. This … violent events in African countries and sub-national regions. The effect pertains to social violence and unrest, not civil war …

I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized … of organized conflict and violence are aggregated. -- conflict ; property rights ; governance …

-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by … a fighting group contributes to the escalation from local to global violence. Finally, we analyze the impact of …

organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the … violence. By combining different data sources and implementing a new approach to deal with potential double-counting, we … provide a proxy for counter-insurgency efforts by the government. We show that the increase in violence is primarily driven by …

We investigate the empirical impact of violence as compared to other trade impediments on trade flows. Our analysis is …