Theories of civil war usually theorize the choices of civilians and combatants without
considering the institutional context in which they interact. Despite common depictions of …

Conventional wisdom portrays war zones as chaotic and anarchic. In reality, however, they
are often orderly. This work introduces a new phenomenon in the study of civil war: wartime …

The detrimental impacts of wars on human development are well documented across
research domains, from public health to micro-economics. However, these impacts are …

Bringing armed conflicts to an end is difficult; restoring a lasting peace can be considerably
harder. Reclaiming Everyday Peace addresses the effectiveness and impact of local level …

We review briefly recent trends in food security and violent conflict and the quantitative
literature discussing their interactions, as reflected by the papers in this special issue. We …

In our brief review, we take stock of the emergence, in the last decade, of the
“microeconomics of violent conflict” as a new subfield of empirical development economics …

Based on findings from the Everyday Peace Indicators project, the article considers how top-
down and bottom-up narratives and understandings of conflict often differ. The article posits …

Existing research on war and peace lacks analysis of what allows peacebuilding to succeed
at the subnational level. Instead, most scholars focus on peacebuilding failure and macro …

Abstract The United Nations and its member states are currently engaged in extensive
discussions about how best to support countries to achieve the Sustainable Development …

Rebel Politics analyzes the changing dynamics of the civil war in Myanmar, one of the most
entrenched armed conflicts in the world. Since 2011, a national peace process has gone …