Islamist groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere have sought to remove females from public life. This paper uses … Pakistani Taliban's terror campaign in the north-western province of Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa aimed at removing girls from school … commonly been portrayed in the media. Finally, although the Taliban warned students to enrol in madrassas rather than secular …

We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … interaction, destruction of resources by defeated players can lead to lower appropriative efforts and higher overall efficiency … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …

Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any … significant impact on terrorist violence in Afghanistan but that drone strikes do have a significant impact on Taliban …

, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …