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Justino, Patricia; Stojetz, Wolfgang - 2019

In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper explores the long-term impact of individual exposure to 'wartime governance' on social and political behaviour. We operationalize wartime governance as the local policy choices and...

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Apocalypse now? : climate change and war in Africa

Weezel, Stijn van - 2018

There is a large empirical literature trying to quantify the potentially adverse affects of climate change on the risk of violent armed conflict, which focuses almost exclusively on linking annual variation in climatic conditions to violence. A major shortcoming of this approach is that it...

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Peacefully demobilizing rebels : identity, emotional cues, and the FARC

Aparicio, Juan P.; Jetter, Michael; Parsons, Christopher R. - 2023

In the early 2000s, the Colombian government aired messages during games of the national football team, urging FARC rebels to demobilize. We first study the strategy's effectiveness, leveraging game dates, kick-off times, and spatial-temporal variation in rain-induced signal strength in a...

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Chapter 23 Civil War

Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 711-739). 2007

Civil wars are intricate social, political and psychological phenomena. However, economics can offer analytical insights which are useful alongside the more conventional approach of case-studies. Indeed, the policy conclusions drawn from economic analysis sometimes cast doubt on conventional...

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Civil wars and stumbling of patriarchal societies : the reconstruction of gender relations in post-conflict Liberia

Larmin, Augustine T.; Banini, Daniel Kofi - 2022

This research project traces how women's participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of rebel groups, emphasizing how women operate...

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The incursion of Leviathan: wartime territorial control and post-conflict state capacity in Peru

Kreiman, Guillermo - 2022

How do civil war dynamics affect state-building decisions in the aftermath of conflict? This paper argues that, in the post-conflict period, the state focuses its efforts to build state capacity on areas in which state power has been eroded during wartime, with the goal of avoiding future...

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Conflicts and political intervention : evidence from the anti-open grazing laws in Nigeria

Hufschmidt, Patrick; Ume, Chukwuma Otum - 2023

This paper empirically investigates the effects of Anti-Open Grazing Laws (AOGLs) on herder-farmer conflicts in Nigeria. The laws, enacted as a response to escalating violent conflicts over fertile land resources between herders and farmers, aimed to reduce clashes by prohibiting livestock...

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Redistributive impacts of civil war : the case of Côte d'Ivoire

Hlásny, Vladimír - 2023

Many of the world's LDCs are plagued by recurring conflict. Conflict impedes sustainable development through various channels, creating conditions conducive to further conflict. Conflict has redistributive impacts, particularly when it erupts in resource-rich countries. Between 2002 and 2011,...

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The loser's long curse : electoral consequences of a class conflict

Meriläinen, Jaakko; Mitrunen, Matti - 2022

This paper presents evidence of political legacies of exposure to a violent class conflict over 100 years. We revisit the Finnish Civil War of 1918 and first trace out the impact of local conflict exposure on electoral outcomes over a quarter-century period between the World Wars. The electoral...

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Addressing coca-related deforestation in Colombia : a call for aligning drug and environmental policies for sustainable development

Santos Duarte, Héctor Fabio; Schmidt, Antonia; Wahl, Sofia - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 3 (2021) 1, pp. 10-21

In Colombia, deforestation is one of the most relevant environmental problems, and the cultivation of illicit coca … approaches to address coca-related deforestation in Colombia. It takes into account the country's current public policy framework … has recently been found in the environmentally sensitive Special Management Zones of Colombia (such as protected areas and …

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