Life on the frontlines of a civil war is markedly different from life in safe (r) areas. How does
this drastic difference in lived experience shape civilian attitudes toward war and peace …

Conflict negotiations are often met with backlash in the public sphere. A substantial literature
has explored why civilians support or oppose peace agreements in general. Yet, the terms …

While the study of the causes of civil war is a well-established subdiscipline in international
relations, the effects of civil war on society remain less understood. Yet, such effects could …

What explains the emergence of Islamist violence as a substantial security threat in such
diverse contexts as Kenya, Mali and Nigeria? This article addresses this question through …

Research on civil conflict focuses primarily on identifying underlying and proximate causes
while leaving many questions of subsequent social consequences unanswered. Few …

Transitional justice has emerged to address victims' needs as a means of restoring relations
broken by violence. Yet we know little about victims' attitudes towards different transitional …

Research on postwar peace focuses primarily on how elites and institutions can prevent
relapse into civil war. In line with this special issue's focus on citizens' experiences, we take …

Peace agreements are negotiated and signed by representatives of the government and the
rebels, often after many years of violent conflict, but their ability to transform a war-torn …

This book examines why, when the conflict in eastern Ukraine began in 2014, fighting broke
out in the Donets'k region, whereas it did not in Kharkiv city, despite the city, like the Donets'k …

To what extent can prosocial norms (re-) emerge among rival groups following intense
intergroup conflict? One school of thought posits that violence can strengthen intragroup …