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Opposition visions for preserving Syrias ethnic-sectarian mosaic

Mahmoud, Rustum; Rosiny, Stephan - 2015

The excessive violence that has spread across virtually all of Syria since the 2011 uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad has so far prevented a serious debate about feasible solutions. Most political factions fear that any talk of a compromise solution will undermine their own position...

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Fleeing the peace? : determinants of outward migration after civil war

Haaß, Felix; Kurtenbach, Sabine; Strasheim, Julia - 2016

In countries where civil war has formally ended, not all refugees return. Nor does emigration come to a halt. Why? We argue that three specific features of post‐war situations explain the varying levels of outward migration: the quality of peace, the quality of political institutions, and the...

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Mapping political violence : the approaches and conceptual challenges of subnational geospatial analyses of intrastate conflict

Juan, Alexander de - 2012

The rationale is straightforward and persuasive: intrastate conflicts are by definition subnational phenomena. If we want to understand them fully, it may be wise to refocus our attention from the country level to the subnational level. Where violence is located might inform us as to why it...

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Electoral rentierism? : the cross-national and subnational effect of oil on electoral competitiveness in multiparty autocracies

Wahman, Michael; Basedau, Matthias - 2015

supported the argument that oil hinders democracy. However, previous research on the rentier state has neglected the global … been carried out on the question of whether or not and how oil affects electoral contests in nondemocratic regimes. In this … rentier state. As oil production creates substantial, nontransparent revenue streams to national and subnational governments …

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Assets, shocks, and poverty traps in rural Mozambique

Giesbert, Lena; Schindler, Kati - 2010

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Oligopolies of violence in post-conflict societies

Lambach, Daniel - 2007

In post-conflict societies, security is provided by a broad range of actors including the state as well as various non-state formations. The paper identifies three types of post-conflict societies and analyses dynamics of the security market in cases where international troops have intervened. A...

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Assets, shocks, and poverty traps in rural Mozambique

Giesbert, Lena - 2010

Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data, for the existence of a poverty trap. Findings...

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Oil and the eruption of the Algerian civil war : a context-sensitive analysis of the ambivalent impact of resource abundance

Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010

but also enhances our understanding of the eruption of violence in Algeria. -- Algeria ; oil ; civil war ; resource curse …

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Fuel for conflict or balm for peace? : Assessing the effects of hydrocarbons on peace efforts in Algeria

Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010

drop in the price of oil and gas have both had an effect on the scope of these measures and reveal their limits. Moreover … ; natural resources ; oil ; gas …

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Why do some oil exporters experience civil war but others do not? : a qualitative comparative analysis of net oil-exporting countries

Richter, Thomas; Basedau, Matthias - 2011

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