Early research on wartime violence against civilians highlighted a distinction between macro-
and micro-level approaches. Macro-level approaches, grounded in the international …

This article reviews the literature on civil war. We focus on the most recent period of
scholarly activity, beginning in the early 2000s when the publication of prominent …

Recent data collections about political violence are frequently based on media reports,
which can lead to reporting bias. This is an issue in particular for the emergent literature on …

Spatial Regression Models illustrates the use of spatial analysis in the social sciences within
a regression framework and is accessible to readers with no prior background in spatial …

In recent years, several large-scale data-collection projects have produced georeferenced,
disaggregated events-level conflict data which can aid researchers in studying the …

While case-based narratives from civil wars often stress the ethnic dimension of civilian
atrocities, cross-national studies have found limited evidence in support of such contentions …

How does wartime exposure to ethnic violence affect the political preferences of ordinary
citizens? Are high-violence communities more or less likely to reject the politicization of …

Why do combatants uproot civilians in wartime? In this paper I identify cross-national
variation in three population-displacement strategies—cleansing, depopulation, and forced …

This paper explores the causes of displacement during civil wars. Recent scholarship has
shown that conventional civil wars–those in which forces are relatively balanced–and …

A rich literature has developed focusing on the efficacy of peacekee** operations (PKOs)
in a temporal sense—asking whether the periods following a deployment are more peaceful …