How does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the … legacies of armed conflict and the differences between those who stayed in their communities of origin during the conflict …

We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in … results in a large and significant decline in Hindu-Muslim conflict. The average result is driven by richer states and those … curbing civil conflict. …

We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …km-by10km grid cell-level data on conflict in a spatial regression discontinuity design framework, we show that areas … conflict management, led to a sharp surge in attacks against state targets in frontier areas. We show that the surge in …

We analyse rural household livelihood and children’s school enrolment decisions in a post-conflict setting in the … show that heightened subjective perceptions of future violence and past actual experiences of conflict influences current … theories of risk. Furthermore, a post-conflict household-level Phoenix or economic revival factor may be in operation, based in …

We evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the … post-conflict psychosocial risks: the household's actual experience of violence, and subjective perceptions about violence …. Despite this, forced settlement by outsiders, household experiences of conflict, and perceptions of insecurity lower maternal …

(IV) strategy and geographic conflict variation to estimate reduced-form effects. I show that civil war leads to affected … economic geography model. The model sheds light on different mechanisms through which conflict affects aggregate income …

polarization, a key mechanism theorized as increasing the chances of violent conflict, remains less understood. We argue that … of the underexplored polarization dynamics of secessionist movements, particularly in places where high …

In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper … civil wars and exposes challenges and opportunities for bottom-up approaches to post-conflict state-building and local …

We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where … review on the role of civilian agency in conflict; on wartime institutions; and on the private sector in conflict. Future … research requires new and better sources of data on conflict and conflict impacts, including from household surveys in conflict …