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Economic and Political Causes of Genocidal Violence: A comparison with findings on the causes of civil war [PDF]
Genocide is different from civil war: it usually involves deaths on a much larger scale and targets particular groups – mostly civilians - often with the aim of exterminating them.
Frances Stewart
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A quantitative comparison of the colombian civil wars, 1830-2010 [PDF]
, 2011 The article intends to complement the qualitative literature on the Colombian civil wars with a quantitative comparison of them. From an operational definition of civil war, ten civil wars are identified, and variables related with the duration, severity
Giraldo Ramírez, Jorge +1 more
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Working Paper 73 - Economic and Political Causes of Civil Wars in Africa: Some Econometric Results [PDF]
In this paper, we investigated whether civil wars in Africa have economic andpolitical causes. The model is based on the Collier-Hoeffler “greed” and “grievance”theory in which rebels will conduct a civil war for “loot-seeking” and “justiceseeking ...
John Anyanwu
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Soulèvements arabes : la « révolution » dans ses crises
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2016 Four years after the beginning of the “Arab uprisings”, a certain pessimism is gaining ground: researchers, analysts, political actors previously involved in the social contestations of the spring 2011, have reasons to doubt the possibility of “Arab ...
Nicolas Dot-Pouillard
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Economic Agendas in Civil Wars: What We Know, What We Need to Know [PDF]
civil war, conflict prevention, human ...
Malone, David M., Nitzschke, Heiko
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, 2010 A civil war, also known as intrastate war, is a war between organized groups within the same state or country. It is a high-intensity conflict that often involves regular armed forces.
Stathis N. Kalyvas, Paul D. Kenny
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Indirect Interventions in Civil Wars: The Use of States as Proxies in Military Interventions
Czech Journal of International Relations, 2019 Current research on motivational sources of military interventions in civil wars frequently assumes that states intervene due to direct interests in the civil war country.
Klosek, Kamil
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Climate and Civil War: Is the Relationship Robust? [PDF]
A recent paper by Burke et al. (henceforth “we”) finds a strong historical relationship between warmer- than-average temperatures and the incidence of civil war in Africa (Burke et al. 2009).
Shanker Satyanath +4 more
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Legalization of Civil Wars: The Legal Institutionalization of Non-International Armed Conflicts [PDF]
Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 2009 This article is concerned with the legal challenges of regulating civil wars in international humanitarian law. Civil war is not a term used in international law; it falls however, withing the context of the legal term 'armed conflicts not of an ...
Kenneth Øhlenschlæger Buhl
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Replication data for: Explaining the severity of civil wars
, 2006 Replication data for "Explaining the severity of civil wars." The burgeoning literature on civil conflicts seldom considers why some civil wars are so much deadlier than others.
Lacina, Bethany
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