Decades of conflict in Africa have left indelible marks on both the physical and cultural landscape of the African … to mass migration into refugee camps also features as major fallout of conflict in Africa. The historical backgrounds of … peoples. This chapter consequently investigates the eroding effect of conflict on physical cultural heritage like the …

the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of … conflict. We obtain a closed-form characterization of the Nash equilibrium. Using the equilibrium conditions, we perform an … empirical analysis using data on the Second Congo War, a conflict that involves many groups in a complex network of informal …

Development strategies and the evolution of violence in Africa / William Ascher and Natalia Mirovitskaya -- Whither … Egypt? / Robert Tignor -- Development strategies in North Africa / Clement Henry -- Ethiopia: averting violence through its … development strategy and conflict: a comparison of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana fifty years after independence / John McCauley …

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …

This study examines Chinese aid projects’ impact on conflict and perceptions of China in 820 African districts from … 2000 to 2012. We show that a 10% increase in Chinese aid projects results in a 6% increase in conflict incidents. This rise … Africans attribute the rise in conflict to the interaction of resource influx and local politics, rather than to China itself …