This paper reviews current practices and common challenges in the measurement of the
causes, functioning, and consequences of violent conflict at the micro-level. We review …

In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources
vary across localities, districts and farming regions. These differences produce patterned …

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 …

Both academic publications and public media often make inappropriate use of
incommensurate conflict statistics, creating misleading impressions about patterns in global …

The Killing Trap, first published in 2005, offers a comparative analysis of the genocides,
politicides and ethnic cleansings of the twentieth century, which are estimated to have cost …

Most combatants in armed conflict are men, so naturally men are the major direct victims of
military operations. Yet armed conflicts have important indirect negative consequences on …

Critics of international criminal justice often explicitly or implicitly assume that criminal
accountability for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes is better handled at the …

The study of civil war ranks among the most notable developments in political science
during the last decade. Several important papers have been published in this period and the …

This paper analyzes the poverty impact of the violent events that affected R wanda in the
1990s. The main objective of the paper is to identify systematically potential mechanisms …

The authors analyze a unique data source to study the determinants of violence against
civilians in a civil war context. During the Vietnam War, the United States Department of …