In many historical cases victory by a challenger for political dominance over an initially dominant group has ended civil conflict. But, in other places victory by a challenger has provided only a temporary respite, a brief intermission before the resumption of civil conflict. This paper uses a...

It is widely believed that foreign aid may help conflict-affected countries to recover after the settlement of conflicts. However, the available empirical evidence supporting this view largely neglects the heterogeneous nature of aid. Drawing on the conflict database of the Uppsala Conflict Data...