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Fighting Conflict : Violent Splits or Healthy Divides?

Bezrukova, Ekaterina; Spell, Chester S. - 2009

In this study, we develop a theory to understand how groups with strong divisions may, paradoxically, help members to cope with conflict and injustice. We test our theoretical predictions using a survey methodology and the data from 72 work groups across different industries. Consistent with our...

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Oligopolies of Violence in Post-Conflict Societies

Lambach, Daniel - 2012

In post-conflict societies, security is provided by a broad range of actors including the state as well as various non-state formations. The paper identifies three types of post-conflict societies and analyses dynamics of the security market in cases where international troops have intervened. A...

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Strategic Games of the Violence in the Civil Wars

Estrada, Fernando - 2013

and changes from its author's scientific output. A context of conflicts that includes new expressions of violence and the …

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Climate and Conflict

Burke, Marshall; Hsiang, Solomon; Miguel, Edward - 2015

We review the emerging literature on climate and conflict. We consider multiple types of human conflict, including both interpersonal conflict, such as assault and murder, and intergroup conflict, including riots and civil war. We discuss key methodological issues in estimating causal...

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Do Girls Pay the Price of Civil War : Violence and Infant Mortality in Congo

Dagnelie, Olivier; De Luca, Giacomo; Maystadt, Jean Francois - 2014

population is a necessary condition to build resilience to ongoing and future violence outbreaks. This paper documents the impact …

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Economic Development, Inequality, War, and State Violence

Nafziger, E. Wayne; Auvinen, Juha - 2004

numbers of people die from war and state violence. The article analyzes how economic decline, income inequality, pervasive … bring about relative deprivation or perception by influential social groups of injustice arising from a growing discrepancy …

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Incentives and Survival in Violent Conflicts

Lavie, Moshik; Muller, Christophe - 2011

This paper analytically investigates the incentive scheme of perpetrators of violent conflicts. It provides a rational equilibrium framework to elicit how monetary incentives and survival considerations shape a combatant’s decision to participate in a conflict. In the model, a leader decides...

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Civilian Casualties, Humanitarian Aid, and Insurgent Violence in Civil Wars

Lyall, Jason - 2018

Indiscriminate violence against civilians has long been viewed as a catalyst for new rounds of violence in civil wars …. Can humanitarian assistance reduce violence after civilians have been harmed? Crossnational studies are pessimistic …, drawing a connection between humanitarian aid and increased civil war violence, lethality, and duration. To date, however, we …

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Economic Development, Inequality, War, and State Violence

Nafziger, E. Wayne; Auvinen, Juha - 2004

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The long-term effects of genocide on antisocial preferences

Gangadharan, Lata; Islam, Asad; Ouch Chandarany; Wang, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 160 (2022), pp. 1-15

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