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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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What do we know about sexual violence in armed conflicts? : recent empirical progress and remaining gaps in peace and conflict research

Koos, Carlo - 2015

Since the war in Bosnia‐Herzegovina and the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict has received …

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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 … the major drivers of outward migration after civil war. Complementary evidence from the two case studies shows that the …

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Brutalisation as a survival strategy : how the "Islamic State" is prolonging its doomsday battle

Rosiny, Stephan - 2016

The recent bomb attacks at the Istanbul airport (28 June 2016), in a tourist cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2 July), and in Bagdad (3 July) were part of a "Ramadan campaign" announced by the spokesman of the self‐declared “Islamic State” caliphate in late May 2016. This series of attacks was...

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Domestic explanations for war and peace in Ukraine

Strasheim, Julia - 2016

Why did Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution initiate a peaceful democratic transition, while the 2014 protests were followed by violent conflict? This paper complements previous studies on Russia's role in Ukraine by focusing on domestic explanations of the recent violence. It shows that structural...

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

Juan, Alexander de - 2012

. -- civil war ; political violence ; geospatial analysis ; subnational analysis ; causality …

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Does uranium mining increase civil conflict risk? : evidence from a spatiotemporal analysis of Africa from 1945 to 2010

Koos, Carlo; Basedau, Matthias - 2012

. -- civil war ; uranium ; ethnicity ; GIS ; subnational study …

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India and the civil war in Sri Lanka : on the failures of regional conflict management in South Asia

Destradi, Sandra - 2010

The paper provides an assessment of India's role in the final years of the civil war in Sri Lanka (2003-2009). In … analysis. -- India ; Sri Lanka ; conflict management; civil war …

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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

Basedau, Matthias - 2011

According to quantitative studies, oil is the only resource that is robustly linked to civil war onset. However, recent … debates on the nexus of oil and civil war have neglected that there are a number of peaceful oil-rentier states, and few … efforts have been spent to explain why some oilexporting countries have experienced civil war and others have not …

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