This book argues that political and economic inequalities following group lines generate
grievances that in turn can motivate civil war. Lars-Erik Cederman, Kristian Skrede …

Contemporary research on civil war has largely dismissed the role of political and economic
grievances, focusing instead on opportunities for conflict. However, these strong claims rest …

We combine georeferenced data on mining extraction of 14 minerals with information on
conflict events at spatial resolution of 0.5 o× 0.5 o for all of Africa between 1997 and 2010 …

Much of the quantitative literature on civil wars and ethnic conflict ignores the role of the
state or treats it as a mere arena for political competition among ethnic groups. Other studies …

The uncertainty that researchers face in specifying their estimation model threatens the
validity of their inferences. In regression analyses of observational data, the'true …

When considering engaging in conflict to secure control of a resource, a group needs to
predict the amount of post-conflict leakage due to infiltration by members of losing groups …

Why do some armed civil conflicts last longer than others? Drawing on a contest success
function model, we show that geographic factors (such as location, terrain, and natural …

This article introduces GeoEPR, a geocoded version of the Ethnic Power Relations (EPR)
dataset that charts politically relevant ethnic groups across space and time. We describe the …

Much of the recent research on civil war treats explanations rooted in political and economic
grievances with considerable suspicion and claims that there is little empirical evidence of …

Whether qualitative or quantitative, contemporary civil-war studies have a tendency to over-
aggregate empirical evidence. In order to open the black box of the state, it is necessary to …