The incidence of civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa since the turn of the century is less than half of what it was on average in the last quarter of the 20th century. This paper shows that the aid boom triggered by 9/11 played a key role in achieving purposefully this result using panel data for 46...

In this paper, we consider a model that suggests that the theory of exchange with asymmetric information seems suitable to provide a possible explanation model of occurrence and duration of civil wars. We show that although civil conflicts are not Pareto optimal ex post they may be Pareto...

In this article, basic aspects of the argumentation, the argumentation relations with the concept of logical inference and illustration argumentation on international comparative policy analysis are presented. The argumentation is understood as part of a deliberative process reasons for or...

In the context of internal conflict in Colombia despite the implementation of the law of justice and peace, whose main objective was the recognition of the rights of victims to truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of property not repetition in the context of transitional justice, it is...

The paper examines the impact of civil wars on income per-capita growth at home and in neighbors for four regional groupings of countries: Africa, Asia, Latin America, and a pooled Asian and Latin American sample. Both macroeconomic and civil-war influences on growth differ by region. With the...

We analyze theoretically and empirically the effects of economic policy and the receipt of foreign aid on the risk of civil war. We find that aid and policy do not have direct effects upon conflict risk. However, both directly affect the growth rate and the extent of dependence upon primary...