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Title:Understanding civil war: evidence and analysis
Editors:Collier, PaulISNI
Sambanis, NicholasISNI
Chapter(s):Present
Year:2005
Pages:353
Language:English
City of publisher:Washington, DC
Publisher:World Bank
ISBN:0821360477
Geographic term:Africa
Subject:civil wars
Abstract:The World Bank project on the 'Economics of Political and Criminal Violence', which was initiated in 1999, has identified a set of statistically significant correlates of civil war. The project's flagship article, 'The Collier-Hoeffler model of civil war onset' has been prominent in the literature. Collier and Hoeffler put forward an economic model of civil war, arguing that it is not political and social grievance per se that leads to civil war, but rather, for given levels of grievance, it is the opportunity to organize and finance rebellion that determines if a civil war will occur or not. This collective volume applies the Collier-Hoeffler model to a set of African case studies: Burundi (Floribert Ngaruko and Janvier D. Nkurunziza), Democratic Republic of Congo (Léonce Ndikumana and Kisangani F. Emizet), Nigeria (Annalisa Zinn), Kenya (Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Njuguna S. Ndung'u), Mozambique (Jeremy M. Weinstein and Laudemiro Francisco), Sudan (Ali Abdel Gader Ali, Ibrahim A. Elbadawi, and Atta El-Batahani), Algeria (Miriam R. Lowi), and Senegal and Mali (Macartan Humphreys and Habaye ag Mohamed). By tracing out the process of conflict escalation, the book takes a next step toward explaining when, where, and why civil war is likely to occur. An introductory chapter by Paul Collier, Anke Hoeffler and Nicholas Sambanis outlines the CH model, while the final chapter by Nicholas Sambanis synthesizes the main findings of the cases and suggests possible revisions and extensions of the model. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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