the war (that is, the death and destruction caused by the war itself) or by the legacy of the peace (that is, the nature … traces variations in violence for five years following the termination of the war, using five different sources of data per … year. It finds that post-conflict states, even those that do not relapse into war, feature significant variations in …

In his book Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War, Michael Gross confronts two attitudes … bioethics in war would better be addressed by realistic and flexible approaches allowing physicians to recognize their interests …

The Political Economy of War and Peace brings insights into the political and economic forces that shape the … international, sub-national and ethnic conflicts of the present post-Cold War era. The larger vision is that war must be studied as … estimations. War appears as an endogenous aspect of systems of social interaction. The point of the volume is not simply to be …

This paper examines the impact of war and armed conflicts on women and children. It examines how crimes against women … are often ignored in wider security debates even though crimes, especially rape, continues to be employed as a war …

same topic, which have focused on the ethnic dimensions of war (Horowitz 1985), the general causes and consequences of … civil war and civil conflict (Sambanis 2002; Collier and Hoeffler, 2007; Blattman and Miguel 2010), and more general aspects …

theoretical, examining the mechanisms that lead to war or are more conducive to peace. …

)". Gleditsch et al. (J of Politics, 2011) reject this claim by showing that the effect of polygyny on civil war onset disappears … polygyny and gender inequality matter in explaining the onset of internal conflicts. However, the results are sensitive to … regional sample splits as well as the choice of the dimensions of gender inequality. The most pronounced effects can be found …