With more than ten thousand casualties, the 2014 Ukrainian war between pro-Russian separatists and the government in … the period 1995-2017, this paper quantifies the short-term causal effects of the Donbass war on Ukraine's GDP. Results … war amounts to 15.1% on average for 2013-2017. Separate analysis for the affected provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk …

In countries where civil war has formally ended, not all refugees return. Nor does emigration come to a halt. Why? We … argue that three specific features of post‐war situations explain the varying levels of outward migration: the quality of … peace, the quality of political institutions, and the quality of economic livelihoods. We test our hypotheses using a mixed …

international assistance could and should shape war-to-peace transitions for contributing to the emergence of lasting non …Scholarship identified the present and future of war as increasingly characterized by urbanization and political … "peace" must be recognized as an order that is particular to a given time, space, and their inherent relations of political …

How does the reform of state institutions shape prospects for peace after war? Existing research on the institutional … causes of peace focuses on how institutional designs, as the outcomes of reform processes, reduce post‐conflict violence and … promote peace. The literature does not, however, adequately address how the politics that characterise reform processes affect …