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How do states rebuild nations after a major conflict? Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have emerged as one …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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The coherence and effectiveness of engagement with the world's 'fragile and conflictaffected states' - beyond ethical imperatives and geo-strategic considerations - turns on answers to two vexing questions. First, on what defensible basis is any given country, at any given historical moment,...
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The failure of the Somali state from 1993 to 2012 represents one of the world's most profound and prolonged cases of state collapse. Initially, education and other government services came to a standstill. With the halt of fighting in some areas, local communities with the support of the United...
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Despite a sizeable literature, there is no consensus as to whether and how mineral resources are linked to conflict. In … this paper, we estimate the relationship between giant mineral deposit discoveries and the intensity of armed conflict … insurgency feasible. The data indeed show discoveries of giant deposits to lower the intensity of conflict for low unitvalue ores …
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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 …
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violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to … an alternative definition of conflict from a different dataset. Gender differential responses are more negative for lower …
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