analysis of large-scale violent conflict with other forms of violence, instability, fragility, and humanitarian crises. … conflict; on the linkages between agriculture, food security, and conflict; on the role of technology for peace; and on the …We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where …

), but could render the eruption of war between member and non-member countries more likely (peace diversion). This paper is …-stage game with three competing importers, where fi rst, two of the countries decide on whether to initiate war against each … other, and subsequently, all three countries select their import tariffs. We show that PTAs produce both a "peace …

To date, there is limited understanding about the consequences of wartime dynamics for post-war state … armed groups govern territories and civilians within them-that under certain circumstances may be harnessed in the post-war … the type of statebuilding and political regime trajectories that emerge in the post-war period. …

conflict exposure (ACE) among Turkish conscripts. Our empirical framework identifies the causal impact and isolates the … mediating pathways for the average male randomly picked from the population. Contrary to the arguments that war fosters … evidence that ACE fosters parochialism, measured by increased opposition to peaceful means of conflict resolution, animosity …

Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human … should be the priorities for 'post-conflict' policy? Should it give, for example, higher priority to health or to livelihoods … the possible tensions - including those around the need to strengthen and sustain peace itself. …

civil war and civil conflict (Sambanis 2002; Collier and Hoeffler, 2007; Blattman and Miguel 2010), and more general aspects … emergence of conflict. The political economy perspective offered here differs from other important surveys and analyses of the … same topic, which have focused on the ethnic dimensions of war (Horowitz 1985), the general causes and consequences of …

This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of … Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic … evolution of the factual Iranian life expectancy during the post-revolution period through the end of the war. I find a sizable …

civil war between the Northern and Southern forces lasted for five decades with an intermission during the seventies. It … impediments that shall they face, e.g., return to war, underdeveloped region, lack of education, health and living facilities. In … this paper we reiterate the accords of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and introduce a theory that the Southern …