reverberating consequences after the fighting stops. Specifically, when a state emerges to control the executive after a conflict …

domestic conflict than non-petrostates, and conflicts are opportunities for regime transition and democratization, why do we … financial resources that can be used by both an incumbent government and rebels to fund armed conflict, and an incumbent … oil inhibits democratization in petrostates, but only in the context of violent domestic conflicts. Peaceful pathways to …

democratization. The article reviews scholarship relevant to the potential democratizing effects of truth commissions and derives … mechanisms that help explain this relationship. Work from the transitional justice field as well as democratization and political … different cutoff points for measuring democratization across a number of models, more publicness predicts higher levels of …

initiation of a period of democratization has a strong and robust effect on conflict even in the presence of static measures of …The hypothesis that democratization triggers political violence has been proposed repeatedly in the quantitative … changes in such scores. In order to gain further clarity into the link between democratization and civil war, the current …

results. Drawing on data from the Correlates of War database, we present an empirical analysis of conflict intensity …

political conflict. We reflect on the contributions made by the articles of this special issue to the emerging ICTâ …€“political conflict research agenda, highlighting strengths of these articles, and offering suggestions for moving forward. Elaborate … measurement bias could account for the prominent association between cellular coverage and (reported) conflict, and recommend …

empirical research on the relationship between communication technology and political conflict and violence. There are different … instant transmission of information from conflict regions. The contributions to this special issue can be divided into three …€˜new’ communication technologies, and try to assess their effect on conflict both theoretically and empirically. The third and last …

violent conflict by shifting the unit of analysis to that of distinct ethnic groups. This approach provides two important …