of violent conflict at the micro-level. The authors review existing conflict -- and violence-related survey … questionnaires, with a particular focus on the World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Surveys. Further, they discuss methodological … challenges associated with empirical work in conflict-affected areas?such as operationalizing a definition of conflict, using the …

Civilians who have fled violent conflict and settled in neighboring countries are integral to processes of civil war … violence. In a survey of 1,120 Syrian refugees in Turkey conducted in 2016, we use experiments to examine attitudes towards two … critical phases of conflict termination - a ceasefire and a peace agreement. We test the malleability of refugees' attitudes to …

We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in … India. We code data on Hindu-Muslim violence and Muslim political representation in India and leverage quasi … results in a large and significant decline in Hindu-Muslim conflict. The average result is driven by richer states and those …

salience of election conflict. Our findings suggest electoral violence does not necessarily lead to changes in behavior between …There is growing evidence that ethnic divisions and conflict experience affect social capital and economic interactions …, in both positive and negative ways. However, recent work has suggested that the experience of electoral violence in Kenya …