Warfare is enormously destructive, and yet countries regularly initiate armed conflict against one another. Even more …

many types of human conflict in the review, including both interpersonal conflict -- such as domestic violence, road rage …, assault, murder, and rape -- and intergroup conflict -- including riots, ethnic violence, land invasions, gang violence, civil …Until recently, neither climate nor conflict have been core areas of inquiry within economics, but there has been an …

We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a … positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and … to go to war with each other, even after controlling for a wide set of measures of geographic distance and other factors …

We investigate the long-run effects of cooling on conflict. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of … that cooling is associated with increased conflict. When we allow the effects of cooling over a fifty-year period to depend … on the extent of cooling during the preceding period, the effect of cooling on conflict is larger in locations that …

Although most disputes between groups of people are settled peacefully, sometimes disputes result in war. This lecture … have to contend, and on the permanence of the outcome of a potential war. The lecture also contrasts the possibilities for …

This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper provides a summary of ideas and … populations engage in conflict over borders and resources, and may form non-aggression pacts, military alliances, and political …

While its recent history of civil war, chronic poverty and corrupt governance would cause many to dismiss Sierra Leone … examine how several factors--including the legacy of war, ethnic diversity, decentralization and community-driven development … (CDD)--have shaped local institutions and national political dynamics. The story that emerges is a nuanced one: war does …

from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level … reanalyze the emerging body of evidence, and weigh alternative explanations. There is some indication that war violence …, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus while war has many negative legacies for individuals and …

Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. The past decade has witnessed an explosion of … a central puzzle: why do civil wars occur at all when, given the high costs of war, groups have every incentive to reach … literature has aimed to identify the causes of civil war. While most work is plagued by econometric identification problems, low …

shortly after the war seem to have dissipated by 2000. While these are important outcomes to economists, by focusing on them …