We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at …

When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …

The conflict in Northern Ireland was an example of "complex warfare" with both insurgency and sectarian violence. We … present a unified model that helps to identify these two forms of conflict from the spatial distribution of violence. The … troop surge in 1972 and the proximity to the Republic of Ireland on the two elements of the conflict. …

open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive … group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas conflict looms under poor executive constraints. Analyzing annual data … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …

, and economic sanctions); chapters on past topics where there has been significant advances in knowledge (e.g., conflict …

Conflict undermines development, while poverty, in turn, breeds conflict. Policy interventions such as cash transfers … could lower engagement in conflict by raising poor households' welfare and productivity. However, cash transfers may also … on conflict in Niger. The analysis relies on the large-scale randomization of a government-led cash transfer program …