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 …

This paper analyses the fiscal effects of armed conflict and terrorism on low- and middle-income countries. An analysis … estimates are consistent with the hypothesis that conflict and terrorism have a significant negative impact on growth through … conflict and terrorism. …

civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than ‘international’ wars. [Discussion Paper No. 2005/05]. …

recruitment arenas over others) and differential network activation (why recruiters preferred war veterans over radical candidates …

the Global Terrorism Database 1. The authors also find that nonterritorial violence is more likely in democratic, old … what extent territorial conflicts correspond to civil wars and nonterritorial ones to terrorism. …

for armed conflicts (e.g., COW and UCDP/PRIO wars and sub-war conflicts), terrorism (e.g., GTD and ITERATE terrorist …Prominent conflict datasets used in the social scientific study of war and peace are summarized. These include datasets … conflict types, alternative definitions of war and sub-war conflict, historical patterns of violence in the international …