SSA has grown rapidly over the last decade, but a curious feature of this growth was that it
was accompanied by little structural change towards non-traditional tradables (such as …

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people
every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines …

In Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus seeks to explain why and how genocide
takes place—and, perhaps more important, how it has been avoided in places where it may …

After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody
continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them …

How and why do rebel groups initially form? Prevailing scholarship has attributed the
emergence of armed rebellion to the explosion of pre-mobilized political or ethnic hostilities …

Does it matter whether a civil war is fought as a conventional, irregular, or symmetric
nonconventional conflict? Put differently, do “technologies of rebellion” impact a war's …

We show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction can be traced to a
substantive decline in the share of the labor force engaged in agriculture. This decline has …

United Nations peacekee** operations (UN PKOs) increasingly engage with local
communities to support peace processes in war-torn countries. Yet, while existing research …

Rumors run rife in areas affected by political instability and conflict. Their adoption plays a
key role in igniting many forms of violence, including riots, ethnic conflict, genocide, and war …

This study investigates how terrorism affects governance in 53 African countries for the
period 1998–2012. Four terrorism indicators are used namely: domestic, transnational …