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Disaggregating hybridity
Millar, Gearoid - In: Journal of Peace Research 51 (2014) 4, pp. 501-514
The term ‘hybrid’ has been widely incorporated into recent peacebuilding scholarship to describe an array of peacebuilding endeavors, including hybrid peacekeeping missions, hybrid criminal tribunals, hybrid governance, and the hybrid peace. However, while widely deployed, hybridity...
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Leave none to claim the land
Verpoorten, Marijke - In: Journal of Peace Research 49 (2012) 4, pp. 547-563
More than 200 years after its first publication, the Malthusian thesis is still much debated, albeit in a modified form. Rather than predicting a global catastrophe, most neo-Malthusians stress the local character of the relationship between population pressure, natural resource scarcity, and...
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Who killed in Rwanda’s genocide? Micro-space, social influence and individual participation in intergroup violence
McDoom, Omar Shahabudin - In: Journal of Peace Research 50 (2013) 4, pp. 453-467
In episodes of intergroup violence, which group members participate and which do not? Although such violence is frequently framed as occurring between distinct ethnic, racial or sectarian groups, it is easily overlooked that it is usually only a subset of the group’s members who in fact...
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Civil war, climate change, and development: A scenario study for sub-Saharan Africa
Devitt, Conor; Tol, Richard SJ - In: Journal of Peace Research 49 (2012) 1, pp. 129-145
This article presents a model of development, civil war and climate change. There are multiple interactions. Economic … growth reduces the probability of civil war and the vulnerability to climate change. Climate change increases the probability … of civil war. The impacts of climate change, civil war and civil war in the neighbouring countries reduce economic growth …
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Come rain or shine: An analysis of conflict and climate variability in East Africa
Raleigh, Clionadh; Kniveton, Dominic - In: Journal of Peace Research 49 (2012) 1, pp. 51-64
Previous research on environment and security has contested the existence, nature and significance of a climate driver of conflict. In this study, we have focused on small-scale conflict over East Africa where the link between resource availability and conflict is assumed to be more immediate...
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Introducing the Civil Wars Mediation (CWM) dataset
Jr, Karl DeRouen; Bercovitch, Jacob; Pospieszna, Paulina - In: Journal of Peace Research 48 (2011) 5, pp. 663-672
introduces the dataset on mediation in civil wars - termed the Civil War Mediation (CWM) dataset. This is the first dataset to … focus solely on civil war mediation. These data contribute to the present state of quantitative research on mediation in … war episode, and provide detailed information about mediation incidences. The article first presents a few variables …
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Taking matters into their own hands: An analysis of the determinants of state-conducted peacekeeping in civil wars
Rost, Nicolas; Greig, J Michael - In: Journal of Peace Research 48 (2011) 2, pp. 171-184
Why and when do states take the burden upon themselves to send peacekeepers into a civil war, rather than relying on …
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Openness and internal conflict
Magee, Christopher S P; Massoud, Tansa George - In: Journal of Peace Research 48 (2011) 1, pp. 59-72
with both a civil war dummy variable and an events dataset. The correlation between openness and conflict in the data is …
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How different are the correlates of onset and continuation of civil wars?
Bleaney, Michael; Dimico, Arcangelo - In: Journal of Peace Research 48 (2011) 2, pp. 145-155
differently is anocracy, which we find to matter only for onset. Civil war is more likely if it occurred two years previously, as … except a pre-1991 dummy and a dummy for civil war two years previously. …
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Rebellion, mediation, and group change: An empirical investigation of competing hypotheses
Lounsbery, Marie Olson; Cook, Alethia H - In: Journal of Peace Research 48 (2011) 1, pp. 73-84
Multilateral and diplomatic resolutions to intrastate conflicts are the preferred method of termination. However, mediated settlements tend toward failure and conflict recurrence. A significant factor in this failure is that government and groups are heterogeneous. While the demands, goals,...
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