Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. Yet while civil war is
central to many nations' development, it has stood at the periphery of economics research …

Because they are chiefly domestic conflicts, civil wars have been studied primarily from a
perspective stressing domestic factors. We ask, instead, whether (and how) the international …

The toll of civil conflict is largely borne by civilian populations, as warring factions target non-
combatants through campaigns of violence. But significant variation exists in the extent to …

Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War is one of few books available in
English to provide an overview of the Colombian civil war and drug war. Abbey Steele draws …

The burgeoning literature on civil conflicts seldom considers why some civil wars are so
much deadlier than others. This article investigates that question using a new data set of the …

Recent research on violence against civilians during wars has emphasized war-related
factors (such as territorial control or the characteristics of armed groups) over political ones …

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 …

In many armed conflicts, rebel groups deliberately target civilians. This article examines
whether such violence is related to the performance of the rebels on the battlefield. It is …

The Lord's Resistance Army is Africa's most persistent and notorious' terrorist'group. Led by
the mysterious Joseph Kony, it has committed a series of horrific human rights abuses …

Two recent research programs—one on the sources of democratic consolidation and
another on the causes and consequences of violent conflict—have tended to evolve in …