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A Phoenix in flames? : portfolio choice and violence in civil war in rural Burundi

Nillesen, Eleonora; Verwimp, Philip - 2010

. Using several rounds of (panel) data at the farm and community level, we find that farmers in Burundi who are confronted …

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Power, institutions, and state-building after war : a controlled comparison of Rwanda and Burundi

McDoom, Omar - 2023

decades through a controlled comparison of Rwanda and Burundi whose civil wars terminated through military victory and …

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Political representation in the wake of ethnic violence and post-conflict institutional reform : comparing views from Rwandan and Burundian citizens

Ingelaere, Bert; Ndayiragije, Réginas; Verpoorten, Marijke - 2022

re-ignite violence. We study who perceives gains and losses in political representation in Rwanda and Burundi and why. We … represented than Tutsi in Burundi. We find that the gap in perceived political representation narrows over time in Rwanda as Hutu … 'input legitimacy' maximize policies aiming for 'output legitimacy'. In Burundi, the gap is widening, suggesting that the …

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Civic legacies of wartime governance

Justino, Patricia; Stojetz, Wolfgang - 2019

In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper explores the long-term impact of individual exposure to 'wartime governance' on social and political behaviour. We operationalize wartime governance as the local policy choices and...

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The political legacies of wartime resistance : how local communities in Italy keep anti-fascist sentiments alive

Cremaschi, Simone; Masullo, Juan - 2023

Can past wartime experiences other than violence have long-term effects on political attitudes and behaviours? How are these legacies sustained across generations and beyond those who directly experienced war? We explore these questions in Italy, a country whose democratic institutions were...

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Civil wars and stumbling of patriarchal societies : the reconstruction of gender relations in post-conflict Liberia

Larmin, Augustine T.; Banini, Daniel Kofi - 2022

This research project traces how women's participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of rebel groups, emphasizing how women operate...

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The incursion of Leviathan: wartime territorial control and post-conflict state capacity in Peru

Kreiman, Guillermo - 2022

How do civil war dynamics affect state-building decisions in the aftermath of conflict? This paper argues that, in the post-conflict period, the state focuses its efforts to build state capacity on areas in which state power has been eroded during wartime, with the goal of avoiding future...

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The loser's long curse : electoral consequences of a class conflict

Meriläinen, Jaakko; Mitrunen, Matti - 2022

This paper presents evidence of political legacies of exposure to a violent class conflict over 100 years. We revisit the Finnish Civil War of 1918 and first trace out the impact of local conflict exposure on electoral outcomes over a quarter-century period between the World Wars. The electoral...

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Rebel governance and political participation

Steele, Abbey; Weintraub, Michael - 2022

Rebels, militias, and criminal groups all govern civilians. Governing strategies adopted by armed groups during civil war likely influence citizens' post-conflict political participation, with consequences for democratic politics. We theorize that an armed group's position relative to the state...

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Local agency, development assistance and the legacies of rebellion in Burundi and Rwanda

Curtis, Devon E. A. - 2014

Rwanda and Burundi have both emerged from civil wars over the past 20 years and foreign donors have provided … significant contributions to post-conflict reconstruction and development in the two countries. Yet although Rwanda and Burundi … different. The paper argues that the nature of the ruling parties in Rwanda and Burundi is key to understanding the countries …

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