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Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War
Bauer, Michal; Fiala, Nathan; Levely, Ian - 2014
The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We examine … social capital of former soldiers in Northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army forcibly recruited tens of thousands … of youth during a recent brutal conflict. We use a set of interlocked experiments to study behavior of ex-soldiers …
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The long-run labor-market consequences of civil war: Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru
Galdo, Jose - 2010
This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether early-life exposure to civil wars affects labor-market outcomes later in life. In particular, we examine the impacts of armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269927
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Oil and the Eruption of the Algerian Civil War: A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance
Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010
Algeria's intrastate war in the 1990s, during which militant Islamists and the state fought fiercely against each other, still raises questions concerning the decisive factors leading to its onset and escalation. This paper uses the resource curse approach and the rentier state theory to...
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India and the Civil War in Sri Lanka: On the Failures of Regional Conflict Management in South Asia
Destradi, Sandra - 2010
The paper provides an assessment of India's role in the final years of the civil war in Sri Lanka (2003-2009). In particular, it looks for explanations for India's inability to act as a conflict manager in its own region, which is in contrast to predominant assumptions about the role of powerful...
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Civil war, climate change and development: A scenario study for Sub-Saharan Africa
Devitt, Conor; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2010
We construct a model of development, civil war, and climate change. There are multiple interactions. Economic growth reduces the probability of civil war and the vulnerability to climate change. Climate change increases the probability of civil war. The impacts of climate change, civil war, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277588
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Disease environment and civil conflicts
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe; Valmori, Simona - 2011
This paper tests the hypothesis that a high and persistent exposure to infectious diseases increases the likelihood of civil conflicts. Diseases that are difficult to prevent and treat may reduce the opportunity costs of violent activities, both directly and indirectly. The analysis exploits new...
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Democratization, violent social conflicts, and growth
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2011
This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization during the Third Wave, we find evidence that the effect of democratization is weaker than reported...
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Economic agendas in civil wars: what we know, what we need to know
Malone, David M.; Nitzschke, Heiko - 2005
The political economy of civil wars has acquired unprecedented scholarly and policy attention. Among others, the International Peace Academy’s programme on Economic Agendas in Civil Wars (EACW) has aimed to contribute to a better understanding of the complex dynamics of civil war economies and...
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Violence against civilians in civil wars: Looting or terror?
Azam, Jean-Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - 2001
A simple two-stage game-theoretic model of conflict is analysed, where the government can send raiders for terrorising the population to flee before the fighting proper begins. The resulting displacement of population reduces the efficiency of the guerrilla in the fight against the government....
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Im Labyrinth der Gewalt. Gewerkschaften im kolumbianischen Bürgerkrieg
Dombois, Rainer; Quintero Campos, Jeannette - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 25 (2018) 3, pp. 277-300
In keinem Land der Erde sind in den letzten Jahrzehnten Gewerkschaften derart von physischer Gewalt getroffen worden wie in Kolumbien. Zwischen 1977 und 2015 wurden über 3000 Mitglieder ermordet. Größer noch ist die Zahl derer, die verschleppt, mit dem Tode bedroht, widerrechtlich verhaftet,...
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