The conflict in northern Uganda has gone on for more than two decades despite efforts to have a peaceful settlement. The latest attempt to have a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Northern Uganda has culminated in the Juba peace talks on the conflict in northern Uganda, where the government...

What can be done to reduce the likelihood of future wars? While states’ decisions that bear on war are ultimately made by their political leaders, strengthening ordinary citizens’ control of those leaders is vital to reduce the risk of future wars. This thesis can be broken down into two...

Drawing on evidence from Africa - especially Ethiopia and Uganda - the authors of this volume draw conclusions about economic policy in the aftermath of civil war. A sample of conclusions follows. Civil wars differ from international wars. They are informal, often have no clear beginning and...

No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This paper attempts to fill that void by building on a newly constructed dataset (Binningsbo, Elster, and Gates 2005), which reports the presence of various forms of post-conflict...

Intro -- PEACE AFTER CIVIL WARTHE ROLE OF FISCAL POLICY IN POST-CONFLICT AFRICAN ECONOMIES -- PEACE AFTER CIVIL WAR THE ROLE OF FISCAL POLICY IN POST-CONFLICT AFRICAN ECONOMIES -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF TABLES AND...

Presents the research on economic factors affecting peace and war. This title includes theoretical perspectives on the economic foundations of peace, violence and war within countries, connections between international trade and inter-state conflict, and the role of legal/institutional factors...

Existing research suggests that democratization can run counter to building peace in post-conflict contexts. This article analyses the effect of two competing strategies that external actors use to address the conflict of objective between democracy and peace: prioritization and gradualism. The...