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Conditional cash transfers, civil conflict and insurgent influence : experimental evidence from the Philippines

Crost, Benjamin; Johnston, Patrick - In: Journal of development economics 118 (2016), pp. 171-182

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War of the waves : radio and resistance during World War II

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano; … - 2017

Can counter-propaganda by a foreign democratic country help to overthrow an authoritarian military regime? And if so, what are the mechanisms through which this happens? We analyze these questions in the context of the Nazi-fascist occupation of Italy during WWII. We study the effect of BBC...

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Terrorism, insurgency, state repression, and cycles of violence

Muller, Christophe; Pecher, Pierre - 2021

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War of the waves : radio and resistance during World War II

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano; … - 2018 - This version: February, 2018

What is the role of the media in coordinating and mobilizing insurgency against a foreign military occupation? We …

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Rebuilding communities after conflict: the role of non-state actors in the Rwenzori region, Uganda

Muhumuza, William - In: African Journal of Economic and Sustainable Development 3 (2014) 2, pp. 117-140

The article looks at humanitarian interventions by non-state actors (NSAs) during and after the ADF insurgency, an … intra-state conflict, in post-independence Uganda. It examines why the ADF insurgency in the Rwenzori region received little …

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The Rule of Oil: Petro-Politics and the Anatomy of an Insurgency

Watts, Michael - In: Journal of African Development 11 (2009) 2

claim’-examines the idea that the violence of oil production-an oil insurgency or an oil rebellion-is associated with the …

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Insurgency, crime, and agricultural labor expenditure: Evidence from Punjab, 1978-1990

Singh, Prakarsh - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 7 (2012) 2, pp. 33-40

Using micro-level farmer expenditure surveys, this article studies the insurgency in the Punjab region of India …. Moreover, insurgency-related violence likely signaled an increase in future kidnappings of farm labor and may have incentivized …

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HEARTS AND MINDS CANNOT BE BOUGHT: INEFFECTIVE RECONSTRUCTION IN AFGHANISTAN

Child, Travers B. - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 9 (2014) 2, pp. 43-49

Recent work has suggested the foreign-led reconstruction effort carried out in Afghanistan and Iraq can mitigate violence because it helps win the “hearts and minds” of local people. For the case of Afghanistan, we show there is no evidence behind such an assertion. Analyzing unique data on...

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Coordination and security

Shapiro, Jacob N; Siegel, David A - In: Journal of Peace Research 52 (2015) 3, pp. 312-322

Recent work has shown that the introduction of mobile communications can substantially alter the course of conflict. In Afghanistan and India targeting mobile communications is a central part of the insurgent campaigns. The opposite was true in Iraq. There insurgents instead threatened providers...

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BOKO HARAM TERRORISM IN NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR NATIONAL SECURITY

Oluwadare, Abiodun Joseph - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015

the wake of an Islamic insurgency with the death toll rising almost on a daily basis. The group has carried out frequent … United Nations building in Abuja. The most recent deadly effrontery by the Boko Haram insurgency was the abduction of over … evolution of insurgency and the factors necessitating its consistency in Nigeria, and investigates the socio …

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