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Fighting over Oil: Introducing a New Dataset

Lujala, Päivi; Rod, Jan Ketil; Thieme, Nadja - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 24 (2007) 3, pp. 239-256

Recent research on armed civil conflict has suggested that oil-producing countries tend to experience conflict more … often than their non-oil-producing counterparts. However, this research relies on weak and incomplete measures of petroleum … coordinates and information on the first oil or gas discovery and production year. PETRODATA allows researchers to control for …

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Ethnic fractionalization, natural resources and armed conflict

Wegenast, Tim C.; Basedau, Matthias - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 31 (2014) 4, pp. 432-457

that oil further increases the conflict potential within fractionalized countries. The combination of oil and a shared … substantially increased risk of ethnic armed conflict onset in a subset of oil-abundant countries. …

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Oil, Youths, and Civil Unrest in Nigeriaâ€™s Delta

Oyefusi, Aderoju - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 27 (2010) 4, pp. 326-346

-level violence and oil-related crime, and militarized struggle) in the oil-rich Delta region of Nigeria, focusing among other factors …

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How to make democracy self-enforcing after civil war: Enabling credible yet adaptable elite pacts

Durant, T. Clark; Weintraub, Michael - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 31 (2014) 5, pp. 521-540

While many recommend electoral democracy as a way to avoid or resolve civil conflict, the empirical record of electoral democracy as an alternative to civil conflict is decidedly mixed. We apply recent work from new organizational economics on the nature of elite pacts to add to both sides of...

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Which comes first? Unpacking the relationship between peace agreements and peacekeeping missions

Tiernay, Michael - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 32 (2015) 2, pp. 135-152

Why do combatants engaged in civil conflict sign peace agreements when they do? Does a commitment by the United Nations (UN) to send a peacekeeping mission increase the probability that combatants will sign an agreement? With regards to the relationship between peace agreements and UN...

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Explaining the Developmentâ€“Civil War Relationship

Holtermann, Helge - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 29 (2012) 1, pp. 56-78

The vast majority of civil wars occur in economically less developed countries, as measured by GDP per capita. Two suggested explanations for this are prominent: one emphasizing that poverty facilitates rebel recruitment due to lowered economic opportunity cost of rebelling, and the other...

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Federalism, the Geographic Location of Groups, and Conflict

Christin, Thomas; Hug, Simon - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 29 (2012) 1, pp. 93-122

In the literature on civil conflicts, federalism is often touted as a useful institution to address regional demands. However, diversity in the groups present in a country is also associated with a higher tendency for conflicts. In this article we examine how the geographic distribution of...

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Rivalry, Instability, and the Probability of International Conflict1

Daxecker, Ursula E. - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 28 (2011) 5, pp. 543-565

This article addresses the effect of political instability and domestic conflict on the probability of militarized interstate disputes. Existing research on the subject has produced inconsistent findings. I hypothesize that the effect of political instability on international disputes is...

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Ethnic Minority Rule and Civil War Onset How Identity Salience, Fiscal Policy, and Natural Resource Profiles Moderate Outcomes

Miodownik, Dan; Bhavnani, Ravi - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 28 (2011) 5, pp. 438-458

Using an agent-based computational framework designed to explore the incidence of conflict between two nominally rival ethnic groups, we demonstrate that the impact of ethnic minority rule on civil war onset could be more nuanced than posited in the literature. By testing the effects of three...

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All Conflict is Local

Rustad, Siri Camilla Aas; Buhaug, Halvard; Falch, Åshild; … - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 28 (2011) 1, pp. 15-40

Most quantitative assessments of civil conflict draw on annual country-level data to determine a baseline hazard of conflict onset. The first problem with such analyses is that they ignore factors associated with the precipitation of violence, such as elections and natural disasters and other...

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