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In the early 2000s, the Colombian government aired messages during games of the national football team, urging FARC rebels to demobilize. We first study the strategy's effectiveness, leveraging game dates, kick-off times, and spatial-temporal variation in rain-induced signal strength in a...
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conflict exposure (ACE) among Turkish conscripts. Our empirical framework identifies the causal impact and isolates the … evidence that ACE fosters parochialism, measured by increased opposition to peaceful means of conflict resolution, animosity …
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The goal of this paper is to measure Palestinians' attitudes towards a peace process and their determinants. One novelty is to define these attitudes as multidimensional and to measure them carefully using a flexible item response model. Results show that education, on which previous evidence...
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its sectoral composition. The allocation of post-conflict aid tends to be needs-based by favoring particularly poor … to settlement. Furthermore, the sustainability of conflict resolution appears to be unrelated to the amount and … composition of post-conflict aid. These findings, though based on a limited number of post-conflict episodes, underscore concerns …
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This paper examines the causes of conflict in Burundi and discusses strategies for building peace. The analysis of the …, because unequal distribution of resources generates conflict, maintaining a system based on inequality is difficult because it …
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