Since the late 1990s, there has been a flood of research on natural resources and civil war.
This article reviews 14 recent cross-national econometric studies, and many qualitative …

▪ Abstract Studies of natural resource wealth and civil war have been hampered by
measurement error, endogeneity, lack of robustness, and uncertainty about causal …

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 debate over the security implications of climate change revolves around
whether changing weather patterns will lead to future conflict. This article addresses whether …

After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody
continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them …

It has frequently been suggested that exceptionally large youth cohorts, the so-called “youth
bulges,” make countries more susceptible to political violence. Within two prominent …

Recent studies have found that natural resources and civil war are highly correlated. Yet the
causal mechanisms behind the correlation are not well understood, in part because data on …

Written by leading scholars in the field, Causes of War provides the first comprehensive
analysis of the leading theories relating to the origins of both interstate and civil wars …

Existing research has related civil war primarily to country-specific factors or processes that
take place within individual states experiencing conflict. Many contemporary civil wars …

This paper presents a critical survey of the literature on the 'resource curse', focusing on
three main questions:(i) are natural resources bad for development?;(ii) what causes the …