One of the most important and disputed questions within the fields of international relations and conflict studies … regard to the role of mediator bias in a game-theoretic model of cheap talk. This study shows that the institutional design … of a mediation process is affected by two factors: the relative degree of conflict and the incentives to misrepresent …

Wartime sexual violence is widespread across conflict zones and thought to leave a disastrous legacy for survivors … sexual violence are fraught with severe data limitations. Based on individual-level survey evidence from three conflict … potential of list experiments for overcoming under-reporting bias and estimating population-based prevalence rates of sexual …

of natural disasters, disaster relief and recovery efforts, the economic effects of extended wars, post-conflict societal …

We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …

We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members'efforts, and analyze how each group's internal conflict in-fluences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …

nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

-makers form, and what determines whether a conflict will arise? We study a network formation game between ex-ante symmetric … players in the laboratory to examine the dynamics of alliance formation and conflict evolution. A peaceful equilibrium yields …

advantage in the final stage. We examine such momentum in conflict scenarios and investigate how valuable it must be to avoid a …, rent dissipation in the two-stage conflict is equal across party whether or not an individual obtains first-stage momentum … as useful conflict benchmarks, they dissipate additional expected contest rents. This additional rent-dissipative toll …