We present a Stackelberg model of conflict, in which contestants have limited endowments to be put in two separate … sectors, thus incorporating salient features of many conflicts. The model is applied to the case of conflict over natural … between conflict intensity and resource rents is non-monotonous, and that the economy's income growth rate may be negatively …

We propose a model of cycles of distrust and conflict. Overlapping generations of agents from two groups sequentially … a sequence of bad actions originated. Assuming that both sides are not extremists, spirals of distrust and conflict get … this mechanism can be useful in interpreting cycles of ethnic conflict and international war, and how it also emerges in …

conflict affect the welfare of these contestants and the allocation of resources to conflict. It is shown that weak sanctions …

How does land reform impact civil conflict? This paper examines this question in the prominent case of Peru by … Truth and Reconciliation Commission on rural killings during Peru's internal conflict from 1980-2000. Using a regression … major pre-existing administrative boundaries, I find that greater land reform dampened subsequent conflict. Districts in …

the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of … conflict. We postulate a Tullock contest success function augmented by an externality: each group's strength is increased by … efforts. We then perform an empirical analysis using data on the Second CongoWar, a conflict that involves many groups in a …