A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin …? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal war? A survey of the growing body of … macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence to assess the impacts of civil war on economic growth worldwide is given. This paper seeks …

War is often attributed to the fact that parties are unable to commit to an agreement, or have incentives to renege on … it. This cause of war is known as “commitment problemsâ€. Yet commitment problems are not in themselves sufficient for … war. Parties to a conflict can experience commitment problems and not go to war. Although current theories suggest …

The paper provides an assessment of India’s role in the final years of the civil war in Sri Lanka (2003-2009). In …

under which the failure of mediation leads to an escalation of civil war. Based on the literature on bargaining, we argue … plausibility test carried out for Norway’s failed mediation in the Sri Lankan civil war confirms the usefulness of our model. In …

The end of the long civil war in Sri Lanka in 2009 generated widespread expectations of a peace dividend that would … of war and conflict the Sri Lankan economy has failed to capitalise on the window of opportunity presented by the end of …

explaining why civil war breaks out in the first instance, there is now increasing interest in modelling violence and warlordism … in ongoing civil war. In this paper, I sketch out and critically discuss the rationalist approaches in this so …