to conflict and civil war. Ethnographic accounts suggest that in segmentary lineage societies, which are characterized by … individuals. We test for this link between segmentary lineage and conflict across 145 African ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa …-documented relationship between adverse rainfall shocks and conflict within Africa is only found within segmentary lineage societies …

develop the theory and examine case evidence from a Christian-Muslim conflict in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia to determine its …

This paper develops a model of random matching with costly monitoring to demonstrate that the threat of ethnic conflict … ethnic conflict as a form of collective penalty on an unidentified wrongdoer and his ethnic brethren (Fearon and Laitin 1996 …), we argue that ethnic conflict is triggered by a wrongdoing because avengers seek to take advantage of in-group networks …

How do natural resources and ethnic exclusion interact to incite or mitigate domestic conflict? The impact of natural … resources and ethnicity on conflict dynamics has mostly been studied separately within cross-country analyses. This paper in … contrast engages in an empirical analysis of the joint effects of mineral resources and ethnic exclusion on internal conflict …

Does ethnic structure affect the occurrence of civil conflict and, if so, how? This study develops an agent-based model … inequality and crosscuttingness. Specifically, I simulate conflict as a function of spontaneous economic disparities between … effect of (bidimensional) ethnic structure on conflict, which has been largely dismissed in recent scholarship. By varying …