Rebuilding state legitimacy is a thorny challenge in the aftermath of civil wars. The international community has … security affects citizens' trust towards formal institutions-that is, government and police. The empirical analysis focuses on … legitimacy of the institutions they are expected to assist. …

We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is … breakdown of trust, plunging a society into a vicious cycle of recurrent conflicts (a war trap). The incidence of conflict can …. Coercive peace policies such as peacekeeping forces or externally imposed regime changes have instead no persistent effects. …

areas, which may have long legacies for local community trust. To explore these legacies, we conduct a case study of post …. These areas show lower levels of local community trust than their Loyalist counterparts. The Northern Irish case …

aware of the behavioral difference: they trust ex-soldiers more because they expect them to be more trustworthy. Last, we …

Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …

How does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the … trust, reconciliation, and community engagement than stayees, whereas the differences between international returnees and … stayees are mostly statistically insignificant. Greater exposure to violence has a more positive effect on trust for returnees …

Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City on two groups of high school students with …