to conflict. Ethnographic accounts suggest that in segmentary lineage societies, which are characterized by strong …. We test for this link between segmentary lineage and conflict across 145 African ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa …

We present a theory of ethnic conflict in which coalitions formed along ethnic lines compete for the economy%u2019s … coalition can defect to the winners at low cost, and this rules out conflict as an equilibrium outcome. We derive a number of … implications of the model relating social, political, and economic indicators such as the incidence of conflict, the distance among …

policy experiment in Indonesia to show how the effects of ethnic diversity on conflict depend on the political units within … which groups are organized. Redistricting along group lines can reduce conflict, but these gains are undone or even reversed …

reacting to varying sizes of minority groups. We conclude that ethnic conflict is an important determinant of local public …