Policymakers can take actions to prevent local conflict before it begins, if such violence can be accurately predicted …. We examine the two countries with the richest available sub-national data: Colombia and Indonesia. We assemble two … decades of fine-grained violence data by type, alongside hundreds of annual risk factors. We predict violence one year ahead …

Colombia, we bring together data on expected upward mobility, exposure to violence, and symptoms of psychological trauma. After …We explore the impact of violence on perceived prospects of upward mobility. For a sample of victims of violence in … controlling for material losses and current circumstances, we find that exposure to more severe violence leads victims' perceived …

Many states in Latin America, Africa and Asia lack the monopoly of violence, identified by Max Weber as the foundation … establishment of the monopoly of violence and the formation of the state. We build a model to explain the incentive of central … predictions of our model using data from Colombia between 1991 and 2006. We first present regression and case study evidence …

, increasing group incomes raises violence against that group, and lowers violence generated by it. We then apply the model to data … on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is that an increase in per-capita Muslim expenditures generates a …. These findings speak to the origins of Hindu-Muslim violence in post-Independence India …

Between 1973 and 2003, abortion providers in the United States were the targets of over 300 acts of extreme violence …. Using unique data on attacks and on abortions, abortion providers, and births, we examine how anti-abortion violence has … find that clinic violence reduces abortion services in targeted areas. Once travel is taken into account, however, the …

The literature relating economic activity to political violence posits greedy rebels (Collier, 2000) but not greedy … motivates rebel violence? Panel data on political violence in the Philippines distinguish government from rebel attacks, which ….e., extortionary violence by rebels in response to investment) to the interplay of government, rebels and civilians, generating …

decisions regarding household purchases and the reduction of domestic violence. We compare our findings to that from a published … study in South Africa that combined discussion sessions on life skills and health on reduction in domestic violence and …, albeit short lived decrease in domestic violence. In Burundi there was small reduction but trends suggest a longer duration …

Family violence is a pervasive and costly problem, yet there is no consensus on how to interpret the phenomenon of … violence by one family member against another. Some analysts assume that violence has an instrumental role in intra … using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location …