The tension between law and politics places transitional justice under cross-pressures. The
impetus to hold perpetrators legally accountable for atrocities and major rights violations has …

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 …

Scholars have spent decades investigating various sources of rebellion, from societal and
institutional explanations to individual motivations to take up arms against one's …

This article introduces PA-X, a peace agreement database designed to improve
understanding of negotiated pathways out of conflict. PA-X enables scholars, mediators …

More than twenty years after the fall of communism, many countries in Central and Eastern
Europe are still seeking truth and justice for the repression suffered under communist rule …

Diverse in many respects, one unifying element of research on transitional justice (TJ)
concerns the fact that predicted outcomes of these processes are normatively appealing; …

While armed conflict is ultimately about violent interaction between combatant groups, a
variety of policies are pursued in conjunction with violence that contribute to the course of …

This paper analyses the distributive impacts of internal violent conflicts, in contrast to
previous literature which has focused on the effects of inequality on conflict. We use cross …

This study investigates how deployment of pro-government militias (PGMs) as
counterinsurgents affects the risk of conflict recurrence. Militiamen derive material and non …

Do legal amnesties for combatants help end civil wars? International policy experts often
take it for granted that amnesties promote negotiated settlements with rebels. However, a …