Contributions to the quantitative civil war literature increasingly rely on geo-referenced data
and disaggregated research designs. While this is a welcome trend, it necessitates …

Several possible relationships between natural resources and civil conflict have been
hypothesized and tested in the literature. The impact of resources on conflict should depend …

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 spread of cell phone technology across Africa has transforming effects on the economic
and political sphere of the continent. In this paper, we investigate the impact of cell phone …

" Eight years after the Arab Spring there is still much debate over the link between Internet
technology and protest against authoritarian regimes. While the debate has advanced …

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 …

We use an experiment across the Arab Twittersphere and a nationally representative survey
experiment in Lebanon to evaluate what types of counter-speech interventions are most …

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 …

If a civil war begins, it is more likely to be initiated by an ethnic group than any other type of
group. We argue that ethnic groups, on average, are likely to have more grievances against …