Policymakers can take actions to prevent local conflict before it begins, if such violence can be accurately predicted …. We examine the two countries with the richest available sub-national data: Colombia and Indonesia. We assemble two … escalations of violence. "Best case" scenarios with panel data fall short of workable early-warning systems …

Policymakers can take actions to prevent local conflict before it begins, if such violence can be accurately predicted …. We examine the two countries with the richest available sub-national data: Colombia and Indonesia. We assemble two … escalations of violence. "Best case" scenarios with panel data fall short of workable early-warning systems …

Indonesia has a long and ongoing history of conflict over land between mining and plantation corporations and … councils and security groups in the provinces of Kalimantan. Suggestions of potential violence are an integral element of the … ways in which these groups bring adat claim to corporations. The article argues that while violence is illegal and adat …

In this paper we analyse the impact of civil conflict on domestic violence in Colombia and find that higher conflict … domestic violence. Taking advantage of the uneven spatial distribution of the conflict we assess its impact, using micro data … intensity increases the likelihood of women to become a victim of domestic violence. The idea behind this is that the experience …