While territory, oil, and water are frequently mentioned as resources likely to promote interstate conflict, diamonds … diamond deposits and production and analyze the relationship between diamonds and armed conflict incidence. They find a strong …

conflict, we find that income levels unambiguously increase the chance of peace. Among other issues, we discuss the critical …

and dampen conflicts, earthquakes can actually stimulate intrastate conflict by producing scarcities in basic resources … experiment design, this study examines the impact of earthquakes on intrastate conflict through a statistical analysis of 185 … conflict, but that their effects are greater for higher magnitude earthquakes striking more densely populated areas of …

conflict theory and empirical testing. Most studies that test for a relationship between the level of ethnic fractionalization … theories of ethnic conflict suggest that the ethnic composition of a society should influence the probability that a country … and civil war onset test only for a direct relationship, while theories of ethnic conflict have suggested that ethnic …

decrease the likelihood of conflict. They also find that ethnic dominance is significant, while social fractionalization is not …The Middle East is one of the most conflict-prone regions—butwhy? The Collier-Hoeffler model of civil war provides … significant predictor of conflict. For conflict in the Middle East, a more complex picture emerges. Consistent with Collier and …

prone to violent conflict. This collection of articles analyzes the link between natural resources and civil war in a number …

This article empirically examines how natural resources affect the severity of armed civil conflict. It finds that drug … cultivation in the conflict area is associated with less severe conflicts but that gemstone mining and oil and gas in the conflict … production. Interestingly, oil and gas production outside the conflict zones is related to less severe conflicts. Measured at the …