Research on civil wars has recently shifted from an almost exclusive emphasis on highly aggregate, crossnational research designs to more disaggregated, subnational research designs (Kalyvas 2008).¹ Most of the recent crop has tended to disaggregate on the basis of geographic locations or events, but a few researchers have turned their attention to individuals (e.g. Blattman and Annan 2006; Guichaoua 2010; Humphreys and Weinstein 2004, 2007, 2008; Mvukiyehe and Samii 2008; Mvukiyehe et al. 2007; Pugel 2006; Samii et al. 2009; Viterna 2006).