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No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This … long-term effects of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace after conflict. It uses a Cox proportional hazard model …-retributive justice (that is, reparations to victims and truth commissions), however, are strongly associated with the duration of peace …
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This paper addresses three questions: 1) what would have been the growth and income trajectory of Syria in the absence of war; 2) given the war, what explains the reduction in economic growth in terms physical capital, labor force, human capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth...
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Drawing on evidence from Africa - especially Ethiopia and Uganda - the authors of this volume draw conclusions about economic policy in the aftermath of civil war. A sample of conclusions follows. Civil wars differ from international wars. They are informal, often have no clear beginning and...
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Using an quot;event-studyquot; methodology, this paper analyzes the aftermath of civil war in a cross-section of countries. It focuses on those experiences where the end of conflict marks the beginning of a relatively lasting peace. The paper considers 41 countries involved in internal wars in...
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The authors analyze the relationship between ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars. Several recent papers … have argued that the uncertainty about the relative power of the contenders in a war will tend to increase its duration. In … these models, uncertainty is directly related to the relative size of the contenders. The authors argue that the duration of …
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and North Africa region, but not in the rest of the world. These results suggest that, unlike in the rest of the world …
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commodities raise the country's risk of civil conflict and its duration. The effect on conflict risk is mainly driven by the price … countries is associated with lower duration of intra-state conflict, consistent with the idea that such trade reduces the … economic cycle in export markets appears to exert any influence on the probability or duration of conflict. The paper …
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This paper explores the conditions under which public spending could minimize violent conflict related to oil wealth. Previous work suggests that oil can lead to violent conflict because it increases the value of the state as a prize or because it undermines the state's bureaucratic penetration....
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The dominant hypothesis in the literature that studies conflict is that poverty is the main cause of civil wars. We instead analyze the effect of institutions on civil war, controlling for income per capita. In our set up, institutions are endogenous and colonial origins affect civil wars...
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Autocratic regimes are quite often short-lived kleptocracies formed and maintained through force and used to appropriate wealth from subjects. Some of these autocracies collapse after only a year or two of plundering while others manage to survive for 15 or 20 years. This paper asks why some...
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