This paper argues that natural resources in the past have been falsely identified as a cause of civil conflict onset …. The idea that natural resources spur conflict has reached a certain degree of acceptance among scholars and policy makers …

The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries …. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in … three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to predict the occurrence and location of conflict events on the …

ethnic conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat …

contributed significantly to the frequency, incidence, and onset of both overall and ethnic civil conflict over the last half …-century, accounting for a large set of geographical and institutional correlates of conflict, as well as measures of economic development … the incidence of intragroup factional conflict. These findings arguably reflect the contribution of genetic diversity to …

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 …

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 …

conflict (civil war) and stagnation of income, increases with the weakness of political institutions, the population growth … an agreement, i.e. a social contract, without any social conflict. Empirical evidence appears to support these findings. …

and to provide a new analysis on the relationship between conflict, corruption, natural resources and military expenditure …

the incidence of conflict to circumstances, institutions and features of the underlying economy and polity. We use this … model to derive testable predictions and to interpret the cross-sectional and times-series variations in civil conflict. Our …