Can the slave trade explain Africa's propensity for conflict? Using variation in slave exports driven by the … interaction between foreign demand shocks and heterogeneity in trade costs, we show that the slave trade increased conflict … propensities in pre-colonial Africa and that this effect has persisted to the present. Moreover, we find empirical evidence …

in Angola from early 1998 to date, during and in the immediate aftermath of the recent conflict. Angola has suffered from … one of the longest running conflicts in Africa. Originally a battleground for a proxy war between the Cold War superpowers …, the conflict developed its own self sustaining dynamic in the 1990s fuelled by revenue from oil and diamonds. The impact …

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 …

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest growth rate in net international migration in the world. The reasons for this … main reasons for international migration from SSA are armed conflict and lack of job opportunities. An additional year of … conflict will raise net out-migration by 1.35 per 1,000 inhabitants and an additional 1 per cent growth will reduce net …

Ethno-Linguistic Affinity, I show that civil conflict in Africa is likely to spill over between contiguous ethno … particularly useful and continue to actually construct such a measure for all countries in Africa. Finally, using this measure of …

We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at … spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a …-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …