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Political Leadership, Conflict, and the Prospects for Constitutional Peace
Jennings, Colin - 2016
leaders such that it leads them to choose conflict rather than compromise. Nonetheless, it is not argued that such a peace is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747780
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Post-Conflict Justice and Sustainable Peace
Gates, Scott - 2016
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 … to analyze the influence of the various types of post-conflict justice on the length of the peace period before the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747783
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Sharing Oil Rents and Political Violence
Cordella, Tito - 2017
This paper investigates how the devolution of oil windfalls affects the likelihood of political violence. It shows that transferring large shares of oil wealth can prevent conflict, while transferring small shares can trigger it. Among the different transfer schemes, fiscal transfers (to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967487
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Impact Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Interventions
Gaarder, Marie - 2017
The international community is paying increased attention to the 25 percent of the world's population that lives in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974236
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Polarization, Foreign Military Intervention, and Civil Conflict
Abu-Bader, Suleiman - 2017
and North Africa region, but not in the rest of the world. These results suggest that, unlike in the rest of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943105
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Oil and Civil Conflict : Can Public Spending Have a Mitigation Effect?
Singh, Raju Jan - 2017
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972501
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Violent Conflict and Gender Inequality : An Overview
Buvinic, Mayra - 2017
Violent conflict, a pervasive feature of the recent global landscape, has lasting impacts on human capital, and these impacts are seldom gender neutral. Death and destruction alter the structure and dynamics of households, including their demographic profiles and traditional gender roles. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974596
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Subjective Well-Being and Peaceful Uprisings
Witte, Caroline T. - 2019
This study analyzes whether subjective well-being measures can explain variation in peaceful uprisings, in addition to the objective measures typically used in analyses of this type of events. Using data on uprisings and subjective well-being for 118 countries from 2007 to 2014 -- a period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894753
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Does the 2015 Peace Accord in Mali Reflect the Priorities of Households and Local Leaders?
Lendorfer, Julia - 2017
the content of the 2015 Peace Accord reflects the concerns and priorities of the citizens, local leaders, and refugees, or … measures stipulated in the Peace Accord align. The greatest divergence between citizen preferences and actions specified in the … Peace Accord is the emphasis in the latter on road infrastructure. When different activities are costed, this disconnect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968700
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Peacekeeping and Development in Fragile States : Micro-Level Evidence from Liberia
Mvukiyehe, Eric - 2018
Using surveys and administrative data from post-war Liberia, the hypothesis that peacekeeping deployments build peace … hypothesis reflects official thinking about how peacekeeping works via "peacebuilding." A quasi-experiment was created by … similarly likely to receive peacekeeping bases. The analysis finds nothing to support claims that deployments increase local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923330